[patriciaruth]

Scoop Jackson

Rhode scholar, Supreme Court Justice? Good memories. I wonder if a reread of history will uphold those memories. I have changed. But I think Scoop would have changed along with me.

[Southern Federalist]

I was referring to the late Senator Henry Jackson of Washington, the last old-school Cold War liberal. Typical New Dealer in domestic policy, patriot, anti-Communist and friend of Israel in foreign policy. For more, see the following:

The Last Good Democrat: The life and times of Scoop Jackson

Ronald Reagan's tribute to Jackson

By the time of his death in 1983, he was already a dinosaur in the post-Vietnam, post-McGovern, hard-left-based Democratic Party.