[Regulator]

Gee. Didn’t know Pastor had died.

Shame, that.

[Lazamataz]

Robert A. Pastor, a White House aide under President Jimmy Carter who shepherded the 1977 Panama Canal treaties to ratification — and was punished for it 17 years later, when conservatives defeated his nomination to be ambassador to Panama — died on Wednesday at his home in Washington. He was 66.

Only 65 years late.