Editing Howard Metzenbaum (section)

==Retirement==
After leaving the Senate in 1995, Metzenbaum served as the chairman of the [[Consumer Federation of America]]. He died at his home in [[Aventura, Florida]] on March 12, 2008.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/us/14metzenbaum.html|title=Howard M. Metzenbaum, Who Battled Big Business as Ohio Senator, Dies at 90|first=Douglas|last=Martin|work=The New York Times |date=March 14, 2008|via=NYTimes.com}}</ref> He is buried at [[Mayfield Cemetery]] in [[Cleveland Heights]], Ohio.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=m000678 |title=METZENBAUM, Howard Morton - Biographical Information |publisher=Bioguide.congress.gov |access-date=November 11, 2012}}</ref>

Denying [[urban legend]]s to the contrary, Metzenbaum said he was never affiliated with the [[Communist Party USA|Communist Party]].<ref>Personal correspondence, January 5, 2006, from Harold S. Stern, Metzenbaum's law partner after 1953</ref> When the [[National Republican Senatorial Committee]] suggested in 1987 that he had "Communist sympathies", Chairman [[Rudy Boschwitz]] apologized for the smear.<ref>{{cite magazine
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Metzenbaum's cousin James Metzenbaum was an Ohio attorney who wrote a text on [[zoning]] law and once ran for a seat on the [[Ohio Supreme Court]].