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Humphrey had arrived. If Washington entertained any doubts about it, the junior Senator from Minnesota soon dispelled them. He arrived in the capital talking, and before his freshman year was over had challenged the veracity of Virginia's prestigious Harry Byrd-right on the Senate floor. Official Washington dismissed him as a brash, flippant, pushy chatterbox. It took years to live those first impressions down. "Maybe it would have been better," Humphrey admits, "if I had sat back and waited a little...
Divorced. Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr., 39, son of the Navy's late polar explorer; by Emily Bradley Saltonstall, 39, daughter of Massachusetts' Senior Senator Leverett Saltonstall; after eleven years of marriage, four children; in Lowell, Mass...
...Johnson to consider the liberal protests, Johnson spent 20 minutes defending his Senate management. When he finished, New Mexico's veteran (since 1935) Senator Dennis Chavez stood up. "I'm a liberal," he said, "and I'm for Lyndon Johnson." West Virginia's Robert Byrd, a first-term Senator, followed. "If I've learned anything," he said, "it's that Senate youngsters are expected to keep quiet." But he nonetheless felt obliged to speak up for Johnson, who had traveled to West Virginia to campaign for him in 1958. "We liked...
...Scratch. In Alma, Ga., while eloquently orating at a Veterans Day celebration, Lieut. Governor Garland T. Byrd discovered that he was standing in the middle of an ant hill, and that thousands of ants were crawling up his trousers...
...Virginia's apple-growing U.S. Senator Harry Byrd...