Remembering Les Aspin
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The Washington TimesMay 25, 1995"Mr. Aspin managed President Johnson's ill-fated 1968 Wisconsin primary campaign. But it was his ties to Robert Kennedy that, in 1970, gave still heartbroken fans of the murdered presidential candidate a new sense of hope. Politics that year wasn't much fun, but it regained some of its nobility. That unfinished business helped Mr. Aspin eke out a 20-vote primary victory after a recount and to go on to win in the general election 61 percent to 39 percent. ..."It is ironic that the oddly-entertaining man with a rolling sailor's gait, on defense and national security issues a thinking man's intellectual, became the first Cabinet-level casualty of the end of the Cold War. Yet, in many ways Mr. Aspin's finest legacy--known to those of us who remember him as a friend and neighbor--may well have been to return to the young people of his district a sense of politics as a noble adventure and a place where real contributions could be made."Les Aspin, like Vince Lombardi, was a winner."
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