His down fall was alcohol.
His down fall was alcohol."
Yep! It was the alcohol that made him susceptible to the counter-attacks by the commie-loving fellow travelers in the press and on TV (even then).
If he could have stayed around for another 10-years or so, we might have gotten State fully flushed of the infestation of commie sympathizers.
We continue to pay for that un-flushed toilet even today.
Of course the infestation has spread throughout other agencies such as EPA, Energy, Health & Human Services, and, most of all, Education.