A perfect example of what has gone terribly wrong in DC (and the country) as he was opposite of the current complete inability for compromise and sacrifice for the country as a whole- while I disagreed strongly on many issues, he was willing to do what he thought was needed for the country even knowing it was going to cost him greatly. A novelist friend of ours became very close to him and Barbara over the last 10 years or so and has only the best things to say about him. RIP