Goodbye Noble Warrior, Defender of The Constitution and Arcane Senatorial Procedure

From The Charleston Gazette:

Robert Carlyle Byrd, the longest-serving member of Congress in United States history, who spent much of his career as a conservative Democrat and ended it by fiercely opposing the war in Iraq and questioning the state's powerful coal industry, died Monday. He was 92.

RIP Senator

Sadly, there is this stain on his legacy:

	"I shall never fight in the armed forces with a Negro by my side... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds."
	— Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1944

The Senator could fiddle around outside the Senate cloakroom too: