One of his twin daughters was murdered back in the sixties, while the other one married Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia.
Rockefeller's office announced the death.
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Mr. Percy briefly considered a bid for the White House only once. In June 1973, he formed an exploratory committee to look into a 1976 candidacy. But he closed it down after Nixon resigned in August 1974 and Vice President Gerald R. Ford became president. Within a week, Mr. Percy said Ford had gotten off to an excellent start and was likely to be nominated in 1976, as he was.Mr. Percy’s clash with Nixon came in the spring of 1973 as the president was trying to contain the Watergate scandal, set in motion by the break-in at the offices of the Democratic opposition by a White House team of burglars and aggravated by the administration’s efforts to cover up the crime.On May 1, the day after Nixon announced a staff shakeup and authorized a new attorney general to “make all decisions” relating to Watergate prosecutions, Mr. Percy proposed a Senate resolution demanding an independent prosecutor “of the highest character and integrity from outside the executive branch.”
He was a good guy, and what a shame the GOP turned into such a shithole party.
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Kara Kennedy, 51, daughter of the late senator Ted Kennedy and his first wife Joan, of a heart attack following a workout.
Kennedy had also battled cancer.
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Eleanor Mondale, also 51, daughter of the former vice president, of brain cancer. She had been battling the disease for six years.
Mondale had worked in Hollywood as an actor and as a journalist.
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Former Wyoming senator Malcolm Wallop, whose background was rather interesting and was more of an aristocrat than many of his GOP colleagues, after a long illness. He was 79 years old.
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