‘Jack French Kemp was an American original, with hair Rod Blagojevich might envy, though Mr. Kemp’s took on an autumn tinge and then a Christmas-tinsel hue as he grew older. He understood Washington but never succumbed to it, he was a football star and never apologized for it, he was a Republican and never stopped trying to broaden the party. He was never on the sidelines, even when he traveled to Dartmouth and Wake Forest to watch his sons follow in his quarterbacking footsteps. His was the loudest boom in the stands.’