Yes, Inouye may have been a war hero, but his political career was less than illustrious. In 1964, he and his fellow Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee sandbagged an investigation of the Bobby Baker affair, a scandal which which might have endangered President Johnson's hopes for election to a full term. Yet a few years later, he and his fellow Democrats energetically probed the Watergate affair, a scandal that involved a Republican administration.
He was a war hero, but I just wish he had done something to find out the truth about Obama rather than swallow the Democrat party line and put our nation in danger.
Understood.....that IS part of his “legacy”.
I think the “Bobby Baker Affair” was actually the LBJ, et al Affair. Bobby took the rap for all of them and went to the slammer for a short while. The story goes that when he got out, his pay for taking the rap was ownership of The Carousel Motel in OCMD.
Also, although Sen. In-no-way had an amazing military record, he soon became a typical sleazebag Senator when he reached DC.