But the search for his body continues–yesterday, police used a backhoe to dig up a backyard in Michigan. Here’s the Detroit News story. I remember reading somewhere a couple of years ago that President Bush had promised Jimmy Hoffa Jr., now head of the Teamsters, that he would spare nothing in the search for his dad’s body, and that this was part of the administration’s (in my view, quixotic) attempt to win a Teamsters endorsement in 2004.