It bothered me for a day or so when he died but at that time my job was finding teens who had run away from home somewhere in America and were thought to be hanging out in the under layers of the city...a dangerous place for a sixteen year old from Podunk (not me - the kids I was looking for). I was spending too much time with the real danger and darkness of lost souls to let it get to me for more than a day.
I think his world view would be much different now than it was up until then. I doubt he would’ve been on board with Soros, Cindy Sheehan, Huffington, Maher and the rest...He might even be a golfing ditto-head!