Liberal Anti-Nixon Republican Pete McCloskey dies age 96

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Notable for environmentalism, calling for the resignation of Nixon during Vietnam and getting 20 percent in the 1974 primaries, destroying Pat Robertson's career and beating Shirley Temple in his first race. Became a democrat in his later years.

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Holocaust denier, rot in hell HP

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I had no idea he was still alive until now. Not a lot of '70's figures still live.

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I had no idea he was still alive until now. Not a lot of '70's figures still live.

I had forgotten the man was alive until this thread was opened. Who are the last figures that served in congress during that decade, barring the current president?

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I had no idea he was still alive until now. Not a lot of '70's figures still live.

I had forgotten the man was alive until this thread was opened. Who are the last figures that served in congress during that decade, barring the current president?

Chuck Grassley and Ben Cardin.

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I had no idea he was still alive until now. Not a lot of '70's figures still live.

I had forgotten the man was alive until this thread was opened. Who are the last figures that served in congress during that decade, barring the current president?

Chuck Grassley and Ben Cardin.

Two figures that slipped past my mind, though Grassley is pretty ancient.

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I had no idea he was still alive until now. Not a lot of '70's figures still live.

I had forgotten the man was alive until this thread was opened. Who are the last figures that served in congress during that decade, barring the current president?

There are still two candidates from the 1972 democratic primary alive today, Walter Fauntroy and Fred Harris. I can't imagine any 60s candidates have lasted this long.

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Holocaust denier, rot in hell HP

He never denied the holocaust pal.  A simple trip to wikipedia outs that as a political smear. 

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I had no idea he was still alive until now. Not a lot of '70's figures still live.

I had forgotten the man was alive until this thread was opened. Who are the last figures that served in congress during that decade, barring the current president?

Just going through Senators from the 96th Congress these are the members still alive;

Donald Stewart (D-AL), born 1940
Dennis DeConcini (D-AZ), born 1937
Gary Hart (D-CO), born 1936
Sam Nunn (D-GA), born 1938
Nancy Kassebaum (R-KS), born 1932
J. Bennett Johnston (D-LA), born 1932
George J. Mitchell (D-ME), born 1933
William Cohen (R-ME), born 1940
Donald Riegle (D-MI), born 1938
Rudy Boschwitz (R-MN), 1930
John Danforth (R-MO), born 1936
Max Baucus (D-MT), born 1941
Gordon J. Humphrey (R-NH), born 1940
Bill Bradley (D-NJ), born 1943
Harrison Schmitt (R-NM), born 1935
David Boren (D-OK), born 1941
Bob Packwood (R-OR), born 1932
Larry Pressler (R-SD), born 1942
Jim Sasser (D-TN, born 1936
Jake Garn (R-UT), born 1932
Patrick Leahy (D-VT), born 1940
Alan Simpson (R-WY), born 1932

[Born to Slay. Forced to Work.]

I had no idea he was still alive until now. Not a lot of '70's figures still live.

I had forgotten the man was alive until this thread was opened. Who are the last figures that served in congress during that decade, barring the current president?

There are still two candidates from the 1972 democratic primary alive today, Walter Fauntroy and Fred Harris. I can't imagine any 60s candidates have lasted this long.

According to Wikipedia Daniel J. Evans ran as a “favorite son” in the 1968 primaries and he’s still alive at 98

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Holocaust denier, rot in hell HP

He never denied the holocaust pal.  A simple trip to wikipedia outs that as a political smear. 

The highlighted part is true.

Still, McCloskey was pro-Palestine and anti-Israel.  His close pal was Rep. Paul Findley (R-IL), who was another anti-Vietnam war Republican who called himself "Yasir Arafat's Best Friend in Congress".  He lost his Congressional seat to Dick Durbin in 1982.  Both of those guys were anti-AIPAC, and they were supporters of the survivors of the USS Liberty, a cargo ship that was bombed by Israel in the 6 day war.  Israel apologized and said it was an accident and a mistake, but the survivors of the USS Liberty generally did not believe that.  They were honored long after the fact, and McCloskey was there.

McCloskey (and Findley, for that matter) were genuinely anti-war.  I respect that, as much as I don't agree with their position on Israel and Palestine.  I take a nuanced view on McCloskey, but he's a soft FF with flaws.