text: He opened the door for Reagan, but he also condemned the people like Trump and his minions.  I knew the Senator from my time on the Hill.  Fate often put us on the same Capital Subway car.  Both he and Kennedy always had a smile for me.  Interesting that such an act of personal humility comes from two men who already ran for POTUS and thus had nothing to prove.  Jesse Helms, on the other hand, was a horse's you know what.