Sadly, news broke a short time ago that Hawaii's Senator Daniel Inouye has passed away.
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Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, died Monday. The most senior member of the U.S. Senate, he was 88.
By Isolde Raftery, NBC News
Daniel
Inouye, a World War II combat veteran and the most senior senator in
the U.S. Senate, died Monday of respiratory complications. He was 88.
His last words were "Aloha," Hawaiian for hello and goodbye.
Inouye,
a Democrat from Hawaii, was hospitalized a week and a half ago at
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, where he said he was
working with doctors to regulate his oxygen intake.
He is survived
by his wife, Irene Hirano, and son, Daniel "Kenny" Inouye. Kenny is his
son with Margaret Shinobu Awamura, who died in 2006.
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Secretary
Clinton loved him, and
I believe it was mutual. Here are a few
pictures of them together when she visited Hawaii in October, 2010.
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) shakes hands with U.S. Senator
for Hawaii Daniel Inouye before giving a foreign policy speech regarding
U.S.-Asia Pacific relations ahead of her trip to the Asian Pacific
region, in Honolulu October 28, 2010. REUTERS/Hugh Gentry (UNITED STATES
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Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (R) walks with U.S. Senator for
Hawaii Daniel Inouye (L) before giving a foreign policy speech regarding
U.S.-Asia Pacific relations ahead of her trip to the Asian Pacific
region, in Honolulu October 28, 2010. REUTERS/Hugh Gentry (UNITED STATES
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