Let me add a few words about Joe Lieberman, who died on Wednesday. My memories of Joe Lieberman go back a long time. He was two years ahead of me at Yale Law School, and I remember him laughing and chatting with other law students in the halls. It was no secret that he had political ambitions.

His class of 1967 included not just one but two future U.S. senators who were also presidential candidates, Lieberman and Paul Tsongas, as well as the gifted political commentator Jeff Greenfield, who has tweeted both a generous remembrance and a hilarious story of their law school years that, a commenter pointed out, prompted an insertion into the Congressional Record by Cambridge congressman Tip O’Neill. Also present in New Haven with me in that academic year of 1966-67 was George W. Bush, then a junior at Yale College.