RIP Claiborne Pell 1918-2009
Former Rhode Island Senator Claiborne Pell has died at 90 from Parkinson’s disease.
Millions of low income student were able to attend college because of Pell Grants, but he also championed the arts through the NEA, and a responsible American foreign policy as chairman of the Senate foreign relations committee.
He was an old school New England patrician in the best sense of the term and a firm believer in the equality of all. He was one of the good guys.