The Senate’s master of the tax code will instead be remembered for the scandal that ended his career.
By Steve Duin
Oregon Journalism Project
— Wickimedia
Bob Packwood was an awkward and epic contradiction, a champion of political compromise with a fatally compromised personal life.
He died June 6 in a care facility of natural causes at age 93, according to a family spokesperson, 31 years after the Select Committee on Ethics voted…