following decade, with him stating "Show me an impeachable offense ... Compare it to the wonderful things for this country this man had done" during an interview in 1984. Later life After his defeat, Earl Landgrebe returned to his home in Valparaiso where he owned and managed his transportation business. In February 1980, the Machinist Union was on strike at the Union Rolls Corporation in Valparaiso, Indiana. In the past he would personally deliver through the picket line such as in 1961 when as a state senator he made a delivery to a pool company plant that was experiencing a strike. The former congressman personally confronted picketers with a tractor trailer this time as well and on February 13, he completed two trips into the Union Rolls plant to pick up and haul away merchandise. Both times, the Union unsuccessfully tried to prevent his entrance into the plant, but on a third trip later that day, he was unable as union members surrounded the truck and swung clubs which broke mirrors and shattered glass. Landgrebe was showered with broken glass and a local sheriff had to break up the incident. Death and legacy On June 29, 1986, he died at home from a heart attack at age 70 and was buried in Blanchly Cemetery. Richard Nixon later released a statement praising him for his loyal support on July 1 and sent a representative to Landgrebe's funeral. His defeat in 1974 ended forty years of Republican control in the second district and Democrats would be elected to the district until David M. McIntosh's victory during the Republican wave in the 1994 elections and since then Joe Donnelly has been the only Democrat to be elected from the second district. In 2019, Jake Tapper compared Senator Lindsey Graham to Landgrebe over his position on Trump's actions in Ukraine and the Congressional impeachment inquiry into it. Political positions Foreign policy Landgrabe stated that the Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia was proof that the Cold War could not be 'thawed'. When the USS Pueblo was captured by North Korea in 1968 he supported sending a forty eight hour ultimatum that would threaten nuclear warfare unless all of the Americans were returned. In 1972 the House of Representatives voted to approve the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union that had a "freeze" on offensive missiles for five years.