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...West Virginia, the Washington Daily News reported that Byrd was the President's personal choice for Black's seat. The report was false; the White House assumption is that the Senator or his political allies floated the rumor, and to avoid antagonizing Byrd, who is the Senate majority whip, the Administration added his name to the list submitted to the American Bar Association for prior consultation. The gesture considerably heated up the outcry against the entire slate, since Byrd was once an active organizer for the Ku Klux Klan, had only earned his law degree?from night school?...
Seeing San Quentin was practically all the authorities let Jackson do. After a brief stay, he was transferred to Tracy. Having let him see the whip, they gave him the carrot...
...carrot-whip option of the site of confinement ranks second only to the leverage provided by the indeterminate sentence as a customarily effective weapon at the disposal of the California penal officials. They can punish the prisoner with whom they are dissatisfied or by whom they are threatened by sending him to San Quentin or Folsom, the maximum security joint. On the other hand, it is also in their power to reward a con by transferring him to Chino or one of the other minimum security prisons-without-walls located in the southern part of the state. Moreover, the authorities...
...first floated the name of U.S. Senator Robert Byrd of West Virginia. Nixon would be hard-pressed to find a candidate less qualified than Byrd or one more certain to touch off bitter controversy around the country-if not in the Senate, where Byrd replaced Teddy Kennedy as Democratic whip this year...
...listings are to be taken on faith. Within those walls, for instance, are the ghosts of a little gray lady who appears now and then in the chapel, a pair of 15th century noblemen damned to play dice forever in the castle tower, someone who used to whip bedclothes off sleepers, and a woman without a tongue who runs across the park every night pointing in dumb anguish to her wounded mouth...