I’ve heard his name before but had no idea what he looked like so checked out his visage on the net. I’m embarrassed to say I don’t think I’ve ever seen him, or if I did, I quickly looked away. Found this interesting tidbit:
“Leahy and his wife, Marcelle, first dined with Fidel Castro in Havana in 1999. In 2000, Leahy and U.S. Sen. Chris Dodd helped transfer custody of Elian Gonzalez — a shipwrecked six-year-old Cuban boy — from his Miami relatives to his father on the island. Leahy friend and fellow Vermonter Greg Craig represented the boy’s father.
“Family values are the most important values in our country,” Leahy brusquely told reporters after the transfer brought a fair amount of political blowback. “We lost sight — or many lost sight — of the fact that one of those family values was to have a child back with his father. And that family value has been carried out.””
#72. Leahy traded his vaunted “family values” for “Marxist values” when he sent Elian Gonzalez back to the “Sugar Curtain Gulag” known as Cuba.