FILE — Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) in his office in the Hart Senate Building in Washington, May 14, 2009. Inouye, who went to Washington at the birth of his state in 1959, dominated public life in the Hawaiian islands for more than 50 years and became a quiet voice of national conscience during the Watergate scandal and the Iran-contra affair, died on Dec. 17, 2012 at a Washington-area hospital. He was 88. (Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times)