U.S. Senator Cory Booker’s (D-NJ) decision to release emails in violation of Senate rules bore a resemblance – in miniature – to former Senator Mike Gravel’s (D-TX) famed (or infamous, depending on your point of view) 1971 reading of the classified so-called Pentagon Papers in his subcommittee on Buildings and Grounds.

A rebuking then-Senator Bob Dole (R-KS) on that occasion played the role of Senator John Cornyn (R-TX).

“Senator Gravel, you’re going to have to live with what you’ve done,” Dole told Gravel, referring to his Alaska colleague’s rules-breach.

“Senator Dole, you’re going to have to live with what you’ve done,” said Gravel, referencing Dole’s support for continuing the draft, despite intensifying public opposition to the Vietnam War.

Cornyn today charged a White House-sniffing Booker’s actions as a politically motivated theater piece.

Gravel, incidentally, ran unsuccessfully for vice president a year after he read aloud from the classified Pentagon Papers, then got clobbered when he ran for president in 2008, the same year Barack Obama won the Democratic nomination.

Here’s a detailed Washington Post explanation of what Booker provoked in the Brett Kavanaugh hearing.