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Nixon easily took Virginia, the "Mother of Presidents," with over 60 per cent of the popular vote, and his showing may have helped Republican William Scott, who surprised incumbent Senator William Spong, a moderate Democrat, by winning with 52 per cent of the vote...
...than 4,000 antibusing marchers toted American flags and a coffin inscribed DEATH OF FREEDOM as they massed outside the state capitol to hear City Councilman Howard Carwile denounce progressive Governor Linwood Holton as "gutless, spineless, no good," a man who made him "think of euthanasia." The Rev. John Spong, the esteemed rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church and a cousin of Democratic U.S. Senator William Spong Jr., took to the pulpit last week to label Carwile's remarks as "the cheap shot of an insensitive politician." The councilman was unrepentant. Dismissing Spong as an "ecclesiastical lickspittle...
...same time in 1916. Byrd went on to construct a powerful statewide political organization that made him one of the Senate's most influential Southerners. Robertson built a reputation as an economic conservative, advocating drastic budget cuts to forestall Government-fueled inflation. His defeat by William Spong in the 1966 Democratic primary was largely a result of the Byrd machine's deterioration...
...before the President's address, and children romped in the august aisles. Misty-eyed wives of the initiates applauded the elevation of their husbands. Like a schoolboy, Virginia Senator William Spong carved his name in his desk drawer. Warmed by their sense of continuity with an opening-day ritual that has changed little in 182 years, the members of the convening 92nd Congress of the United States momentarily buried their deep differences. They basked in the expansive mood of mutual esteem common to those who know that they are about to influence their nation's history...
Byrd had subsequently found himself increasingly isolated by the emerging leadership in the Democratic party, as liberal forces led by freshman Sen. William B. Spong moved to occupy the power vacuum left by his father's death. After a Byrdbacked candidate for Governor ran an ignominious third in the 1969 primary, Byrd announced that he was leaving the party to run as an independent...