Word: whips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uncanny ability to spot trends developing; during the last Congress he was among the first to report Republican Senate Leader Hugh Scott's leadership problems, Richard Nixon's growing disenchantment with the Senate and Robert Byrd's budding chances to capture the post of Senate whip...
...Democrat John Tunney smilingly grasped the hand of Vice President Spiro Agnew, who had personally fought his election. A bipartisan ovation greeted the return of Minnesota Democrat Hubert Humphrey, whose eternal ebullience is still enjoyed by his longtime colleagues. Massachusetts Democrat Edward Kennedy, deposed from his job as majority whip only minutes before in a stunning upset, quietly beckoned the man who beat him, West Virginia's Robert C. Byrd, to take over his front-row desk. Byrd sympathetically declined and the two sat side by side at the rear of the chamber throughout the opening ceremony...
Albert considers himself a populist in the tradition of Rayburn; the districts the two men represented adjoin on the Texas-Oklahoma border, and they were fast friends. Rayburn helped pick Albert as Democratic whip in 1955. To Rayburn admirers, the two small men (Rayburn was l½ in. taller) even seemed to operate alike. Said one as he watched Albert in 1962: "Look at the little fellow! Ain't that Mr. Sam?" Albert has stumbled only once in his steady climb since then; he appeared vacillating and uncertain as he chaired the chaotic 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago. He had suffered...
...majority leader. He was bumped in a stunning upset by West Virginia's conservative, hard-working Robert C. Byrd, 53, who had waged no noisy campaign for the post but had discreetly pleaded with almost every Democrat. His basic pitch was that he had in effect been handling the whip duties in Kennedy's frequent absences from the Senate and ought to have the job in title...
...more likely reason for Kennedy's defeat was that he simply did not mind the store sufficiently. That was ironic, since Kennedy won the whip job two years ago by waging a quiet telephone campaign against an establishment type, Louisiana's Russell Long, who had shirked his work. But when Ted took over and absented himself frequently to attend to other matters, the club turned against him too. Byrd, as secretary of the Democratic Conference, carried much of Kennedy's load. Thus there was at least a half-truth in Byrd's kindly explanation that "this was not a slap...