you covered him as well. he wroez rose to be one of the most powerful sen is or thes in history. he is not at all charismatic, and he would be the first to admit it, but how the work the senate behind the scenes, and work the blunt, and sometimes the gaffes that he would commit, he would work privately with the senators from behind the isle, and try to cu behind the aisld even from the senators, he would work with them quietly in different ways, and republicans would remember the things that he did over the years to try to mend the fences. and senator susan collins is one of them after attacking the republic cans afterwards and he would talk to them about how he admired the what he stood for. and as dana rightly points out, if not for him, there would not