[Captain Peter Blood]

All true but I also think Percy was from an era of decent people who did love their country.
There is no room anymore for people like Percy in Politics, it has all turned vicious.
At least Percy had been a successful businessman and had real world experience before he went into politics.
Now we have the era of the professional politician, one that has never had a real job ever.

[EDINVA]

You expressed my thoughts. Totally different era of American politics.

I seem to recall a story from years ago that Percy’s son in law came to him and said he was considering changing from Republican to Dem. After lengthy discussion, Percy told him to sleep on it. Next morning, young John D. comes to breakfast and says he wants to switch to Dem. Percy told him to go back to bed and sleep some more. Alas, never happened.