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Jun 30, 2010 · Robert Byrd, the longest-serving senator in U.S. history, died Monday at 92. While he was most famous as a master of the Senate’s obscure rules, Byrd wore many hats during his lifetime ...
Aug 15, 2019 · The New York Times, "Robert C. Byrd, a pillar of the Senate, dies at 92," June 28, 2010 The White House, "President Obama on the loss of Senator Robert Byrd: ‘A voice of principle and reason ...
Jul 2, 2010 · Jonah Goldberg argues that Byrd “was a powerful man who abandoned his bigoted principles in order to keep power”. The common interpretation is that Byrd’s is a story of redemption. A one ...
Sep 28, 2017 · Robert Byrd Consorts With a KKK Grand Dragon. One Saturday in the 1920s, a small boy named Robert Byrd stood at a second-floor window in Matoaka, W.Va., and watched wide-eyed as a parade of men, including his adoptive father, marched past in white robes, white hoods and white masks. They were local members of the Ku Klux Klan.
Aug 8, 2021 · That requirement was initially the work of one man, Sen. Robert C. Byrd, a Democrat from West Virginia. After Reagan's breakthrough in 1981, reconciliation was being used for a variety of purposes ...
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May 17, 2022 · Raised in a West Virginia coal mining community, the future senator often said that his childhood experiences helped shape his political beliefs. While working as a butcher in the early 1940s, Byrd formed a new chapter of the Ku Klux Klan in Sophia, West Virginia. In his 2005 book, Robert C. Byrd: Child of the Appalachian Coalfields, Byrd ...
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Jul 3, 2010 · A Somber Celebration Of Sen. Byrd's Life At the West Virginia state capitol building Friday, President Obama eulogized Sen. Robert Byrd as a Senate icon, an elder statesmen and as his friend ...
