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Mr. Robertson has well earned a free' ride. It has been both his good fortune and his ill fortune to serve as the junior Senator to Mr. Byrd. If Mr. Byrd has drawn the fire, Mr. Byrd has drawn the spotlight as well; against his senior’s brilliant plumage, Mr. Robertson often has seemed a little more dun-colored than he really is. It is a fairly familiar situation, and a difficult one to cope with. Mr. Robertson’s light, concealed under Mr. Byrd’s bushel, rarely has shown as brightly as it might have shone. Yet Virginia’s “junior” Senator (Mr. Robertson will be 67 in May, Mr. Byrd will be 67 in June) has served his State ably since he went to the Senate in 1946 to fill out the unexpired term of Carter Glass. A tireless student of banking and finance, he has made some sound contributions to fiscal policy; if Mr. Robertson’s position on foreign aid has been a good bit more liberal than our own, it needs to be said that he has advanced his views persuasively. During the recent Senate debate on Hawaiian statehood, no‘ member of the Senate offered more cogent or more unanswerable arguments against this step than Mr. Robertson put before his colleagues. A modesty and
lie speaker, Mr. Robertson has been consistently a credit to the Old Dominion.
Six years ago, Mr. Robertson disposed of James P. Hart, Jr. by a vote of 80,340, to 33,928 in the primary, and went on to defeat Republicaan Robert H. Woods by 253,865 to 119,366 in the general election. There has been some speculation that former Governor Tuck, now serving in the House from the Fifth District, might tackle Mr. Robertsop in a knockdown primary race this Summer. Wisely, Mr. Tuck has put the notion aside. Such a head-on colision would leave the Byrd organization scattered* all voer the political highway, and the organization needs nothing so much right now as a little smooth and comfortable riding. That’s the prospect for Mr. Roberson this Summer, and we have no fault to find with it.
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