Question: Which American lawyer and politician worked with special assistant and speechwriter Aram Bakshian in 1971, and was also the Republican presidential nominee in the 1996 presidential election?

Context articles: United States presidential election, 1948
Electoral history of Bob Dole
Frank McEnulty
Politics of San Diego County
Thomas E. Dewey
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
2016 United States presidential election recounts
Bob Dole
Aram Bakshian
Charles Evans Hughes

The United States presidential election of 1948 was the 41st quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1948.
 Incumbent President Harry S. Truman, the Democratic nominee, who had succeeded to the presidency after the death of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1945, successfully ran for election for a full term against Thomas E. Dewey, the Republican nominee, who also was the Republican presidential nominee in 1944.
Electoral history of Bob Dole, United States Senator from Kansas (1969–1996), Senate Majority Leader (1985–1987, 1995–1996), Senate Minority Leader (1987–1995), 1976 Republican Party Vice Presidential nominee and 1996 Presidential nominee.
Frank Edward McEnulty (born 1956) is an American businessperson and politician.
 In the 2008 presidential election, he was the vice presidential nominee of the Reform Party of the United States of America, and the presidential nominee of the New American Independent Party.
 His running mate for the latter was Bobby Klingler.
 In total, he received 833 votes in the presidential election for his presidential candidacy and 481 for his vice-presidential candidacy.
 
San Diego County has historically been a Republican stronghold.
 The Republican presidential nominee carried the county in every presidential election from 1948 through 2004, except in 1992 when Bill Clinton won a plurality.
 In 2008, Barack Obama became the first Democratic presidential candidate to win a majority of votes in San Diego County since World War II; he won a majority of county votes again in 2012.
Thomas Edmund Dewey (March 24, 1902 – March 16, 1971) was an American lawyer, prosecutor, and politician.
 He served as the 47th Governor of New York from 1943 to 1954.
 In 1944, he was the Republican Party's nominee for President.
 He lost the 1944 election to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the closest of Roosevelt's four presidential elections.
 He was again the Republican presidential nominee in 1948, but lost to President Harry S. Truman in one of the greatest upsets in presidential election history.
 Dewey played a large role in winning the Republican presidential nomination for Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1952, and helped Eisenhower win the presidential election that year.
 He also played a large part in the choice of Richard M. Nixon as the Republican vice-presidential nominee in 1952 and 1956.
Arthur Meier Schlesinger Jr. ( ; born Arthur Bancroft Schlesinger; October 15, 1917 – February 28, 2007) was an American historian, social critic, and public intellectual.
 The son of the influential historian Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr. and a specialist in American history, much of Schlesinger's work explored the history of 20th-century American liberalism.
 In particular, his work focused on leaders such as Harry S. Truman, Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, and Robert F. Kennedy.
 In the 1952 and 1956 presidential campaigns, he was a primary speechwriter and adviser to the Democratic presidential nominee both times, Adlai Stevenson II.
 Schlesinger served as special assistant and "court historian" to President Kennedy from 1961 to 1963.
 He wrote a detailed account of the Kennedy administration, from the 1960 presidential campaign to the president's state funeral, titled "A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House", which won the 1966 Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography.
Following Republican nominee Donald Trump's presumed electoral college victory in the United States presidential election of 2016, a group of computer scientists, cyber security experts, and election monitors raised concerns about the integrity of the election results.
 They urged the campaign staff of Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, who had conceded the campaign on November 9, to petition for a recount in three key states: Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
 When the Clinton campaign declined to file for recounts, Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein agreed to spearhead the recount effort on November 23, on the grounds that unspecified "anomalies" may have affected the election's outcome.
 The Clinton team subsequently pledged to support the recount efforts "in order to ensure the process proceeds in a manner that is fair to all sides."
 President-elect Trump and his supporters filed legal motions in all three states to prevent the recounts.
 Two other states were the subject of recount bids that were separate from Stein's efforts in the Rust Belt states: American Delta Party/Reform Party presidential candidate Rocky De La Fuente filed for a partial recount in Nevada on November 30, and three Florida citizens filed for a complete hand recount in their state on December 6.
Robert Joseph Dole (born July 22, 1923) is an American lawyer and politician who represented Kansas in Congress from 1961 to 1996 and served as the Republican Leader of the United States Senate from 1985 until 1996.
 He was the Republican presidential nominee in the 1996 presidential election and the party's vice presidential nominee in the 1976 presidential election.
Aram Bakshian Jr. (born 1944 ) is a native of Washington, DC.
 His heritage is Armenian.
 He has been a lifelong “wordsmith” plying his trade initially as an aide to Congressman William “Bill” Brock (1966-70), then as a special assistant and speechwriter for Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Senator Bob Dole (1971).
 His work at the RNC caught the eye of many within the White House.
 He joined the speechwriting staff of President Richard Nixon and, later, of President Ford (1972-75).
 He then became a senior consultant to Treasury Secretary William E. Simon (1976-77).
 Following his government service Aram went on the lecture circuit as well as becoming a senior fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard before being brought back for White House service.
Charles Evans Hughes Sr. (April 11, 1862 – August 27, 1948) was an American statesman, Republican politician from New York, and the 11th Chief Justice of the United States.
 He was also the 36th Governor of New York, the Republican presidential nominee in the 1916 presidential election, and the 44th United States Secretary of State.