Joseph Lieberman‚ four-term U.S. senator from Connecticut‚ was noteworthy for two reasons‚ one of special interest to this magazine‚ the other of interest to the nation. In 1988 WFB‚ a Connecticut resident‚ had had it with Senator Lowell Weicker who‚ besides being politically undesirable — he was a liberal Republican — was gaseous and vain. Democrats had taken control of the Senate two years earlier so keeping a nominal R no longer mattered. Bill accordingly endorsed Joe Lieberman‚ the...