A senator since January 1963, Inouye was currently the longest serving senator and was president pro tempore of the Senate, third in the line of presidential succession. His office said Monday that he died of respiratory complications at a Washington-area hospital.

Less than an hour after Inouye's passing, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced Inouye's death to a stunned chamber. "Our friend Daniel Inouye has died," Reid said somberly. Shocked members of the Senate stood in the aisles or slumped in their chairs.

Inouye was a World War II hero and Medal of Honor recipient who lost an arm to a German hand grenade during a battle in Italy. He became the first Japanese-American to serve in Congress, when he was elected to the House in 1959, the year Hawaii became a state. He won election to the Senate three years later and served there longer than anyone in American history except Robert Byrd of West Virginia, who died in 2010 after 51 years in the Senate.
http://www.charter.net/news/read.php?rip....org%3E&ps=1018

RIP, Senator. We disagreed in politics but I thank you for your service to our country.

Fifty one years in the Senate is too long.

Indeed Cincinnatus.

Inouye sacrificed his arm in service to this country while serving in Germany.

I always felt badly that his politics were so screwy.

Prayers for his family.

Cincinnatus

The man went to the Dark Side years ago.

The web has been scrubbed of most information but I did manage to find this.

Accusations Against Hawaii Senator Meet a Silence in His Seat of Power

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Behind the stage set of fragrant flowers, balmy trade winds and turquoise lagoons, there is another Hawaii: a world of bare-knuckle, one-party politics where the Democrats dominate and one formidable man, Senator Daniel K. Inouye, reigns supreme.

And so when this war hero, this influential committee leader who brings home the bacon, this icon in Hawaii's powerful Japanese-American community was hit with allegations of sexual misconduct shortly before his November re-election, Senator Inouye's colleagues and constituents were confounded by what to say and do.

The accusations, which the 68-year-old Senator has called "unmitigated lies," were made by his hairdresser of the last two decades, when she was led by an opposition campaign worker with a hidden tape recorder into telling a story of nonconsensual intercourse 17 years ago and persistent gropings in years since.

While few public figures here impugned the 40-year-old hairdresser, Lenore Kwock, neither did they raise their voices in curiosity or censure of Mr. Inouye. In large measure, political, civic and business leaders chose guarded silence, which some of them attribute to fear that the party machine, which controls nearly all state and Federal positions and programs here, might derail their careers or strip their projects of government money.

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http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/14/us/acc...?pagewanted=all

Found another 'old' but interesting article.

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Sen. Dan Inouye of Hawaii, who managed to survive allegations of sexual harassment during his campaign for reelection last year, suffers from a severe case of post-modern male syndrome - PMS. With craven arrogance, he defended his vote to compel Sen. Packwood to turn over all of his diaries to the ethics committee and demanded that he resign.

"I think it would be in his best interest," he told reporters in Honolulu. "I think it would be in the best interest of the institution."

He might have added: "I think it would be in my best interest.

"He conceded that he voted the way he did so that voters (i.e. feminists) wouldn't think he was trying to cover up revelations the diaries might contain about him. There may be honor among thieves, but not among bounders, at least in the U.S. Senate.

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http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1993-11...n-male-syndrome

This man was a piece of human debris. All anyone needs to know this for sure is his closing remarks in the Iran Contra political circus. If I recall, Brendon Sullivan called him out for the lowlife creep he actually was.

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This man was a piece of human debris. All anyone needs to know this for sure is his closing remarks in the Iran Contra political circus. If I recall, Brendon Sullivan called him out for the lowlife creep he actually was.

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You won't get any hassle from me. I notice and have noticed that they always lead off with this dude being a "WW II Hero" as they gloss over all the corruption, grand standing and depravity of his subsequent life. In my book, just because you did something good almost 70 years ago, it doesn't wash away what deplorable thing you did yesterday.

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You won't get any hassle from me. I notice and have noticed that they always lead off with this dude being a "WW II Hero" as they gloss over all the corruption, grand standing and depravity of his subsequent life. In my book, just because you did something good almost 70 years ago, it doesn't wash away what deplorable thing you did yesterday.

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You won't get any hassle from me. I notice and have noticed that they always lead off with this dude being a "WW II Hero" as they gloss over all the corruption, grand standing and depravity of his subsequent life. In my book, just because you did something good almost 70 years ago, it doesn't wash away what deplorable thing you did yesterday.

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