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From 1979 to 1994. Rhodes Scholar, too. Boren also decided in 1991 to vote against the Persian Gulf War, surprising most political observers.
Boren also decided in 1991 to vote against the Persian Gulf War, surprising most political observers.
In a controversial public mea culpa in a New York Times Op/Ed piece, Boren expressed regret over his vote to confirm Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas.
In 1994, he resigned his Senate seat to accept the presidency of the University of Oklahoma.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_L._Boren
And we all then became the poorer for it. That card-carrying Troglodyte idiot james inhofe is who replaced him in the Senate. 
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