Jack Kemp, the former Buffalo Bills football player, United States congressman, and Secretary of Housing and Urban Development under the first President Bush, as well as the Republican vice-presidential nominee in 1996, died today after a battle with cancer. He was 73.Update: This diary at DailyKos includes the letter Mr. Kemp wrote to his family following the election of Barack Obama last November. Kemp's fellow Republicans would do well to make it mandatory reading among their ranks.
