- Daniel Inouye, Hawaii’s Quiet Voice of Conscience in Senate, Dies at 88 – NYTimes.com
‘Senator Daniel K. Inouye of Hawaii, who went to Washington at the birth of his state in 1959, dominated public life in the Hawaiian islands for more than 50 years and became a quiet voice of national conscience during the Watergate scandal and the Iran-contra affair, died on Monday in Bethesda, Md. He was 88.’