“Ah jeez, he’s doing that thing again,” sighed Minnesota senator Amy Klobuchar as McConnell extended his arms in her direction, opening and closing his hands while staring unblinkingly.

"I’d forget everything I hold dear if it meant being freed of the image of my father squeezing the white-sand beach between his yellow-nailed grippers," said Stiegel's visibly shaken daughter.

"He was quite the devil back then too,” chuckled 71-year-old Gary Hall. “Except it was less pro-bombing and anti-autonomy, more pro-tickling and anti-me shaving my chest hair.”