Correct me if I'm wrong, Mike but wasn't he a total disaster as mayor of Cleveland in the late 70's?  As I recall he seemed out of touch with reality at times and the city was having major financial problems which he didn't have a clue to fix nor deal with.   The word putz keeps coming to mind in thinking about him back then.  Everybody I knew then (I was training at Cleveland Clinic) couldn't wait to get him out the door.