I noted that former U.S. Senator and Virginia Governor Charles Robb was among those named by President Bush to the panel to investigate intelligence failures leading up to the war with Iraq. The Richmond paper describes here and the AP describes here the background of Senator Robb, who is still identified in part as the "son-in-law of the late President Lyndon Johnson."
Senator Robb's story is pretty well-known to Virginians: Marine marries the President's daughter, becomes a lawyer, gets elected to a succession of greater offices, gets bored with it all, gets run out of town for a scandal involving a beauty queen, lives happily ever after.
In his last successful campaign, Senator Robb defeated Iran-contra figure Oliver North, of whom Robb declared that North was a "document-shredding, Constitution-trashing, Commander in Chief-bashing, Congress-thrashing, uniform-shaming, Ayatollah-loving, arms-dealing, criminal-protecting, résumé-enhancing, Noriega-coddling, Social Security-threatening, public school-denigrating, Swiss-banking-law-breaking, letter-faking, self-serving, election-losing, snake-oil salesman who can’t tell the difference between the truth and a lie," according to Bartleby's.
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