Joe Lieberman ’64, ’67LLB: end of an eraThe US Senate convened on January 3 and, for the first time in 24 years, Joe Lieberman ’64, ’67LLB, was not sworn in. The senior senator from Connecticut has retired, perhaps the end of the line for the political genus once known as Cold War liberals. A lifelong Democrat, Lieberman at Yale showed equal devotion to Yankee Republican (and Yale president) Kingman Brewster Jr. ’41 and to conservative icon William F. Buckley Jr. ’50 (who helped Lieberman in his first Senate campaign, against "maverick" Republican Lowell Weicker in 1988).
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