“A larger-than-life presence of his era, Mr. White had deep roots in the parochial old political culture of the city, but lightning instincts and a roving intellect that propelled him to national stature. Amid society-altering upheavals of the era — the civil rights movement, Vietnam War, and Watergate — he adapted and survived, at times reinventing himself.”
— The Globe has an obit up here.
