Native Iowan, left in 1988. Only visit to Sioux City was in 1980 on a surrogate campaign swing with Ethel Kennedy and two of her daughters on behalf of her brother-in-law Ted's doomed campaign to keep Reagan out of the White House.

Somehow she forgot to pack her nightstand picture of Bobby when we moved on and she didn't realize it until we were in Des Moines. The advance man dropped everything and drove back to get the picture. As I understood it, she had slept next to it every night since RFK's death. A very complicated family besieged on all sides by political maggots back then and still today.

An old story but there won't be any fresh ones this cycle, not on the Democrat side. The Iowa Caucuses have been stifled, and will remain on double secret probation forever. The DNC learned you can't herd caucus goers who in any event are still prickly from appGate.