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wnen senator-elect raut Trible is sworn into office on the first Wednesday in January replacing the retiring Mr. Byrd. Sen. Warner’s hour will be, or at least should be, at hand.
But will it? The question requires discussion.
Mr. Trible. the new junior senator-to-be, is about as unlike Harry Byrd as it is possible for two men who putatively share the same political faith — though not the same party - to be.
When future historians contemplate Sen. Byrd’s accomplishments during his 17 year tenure in the Senate, they will not find the task burdensome. They will not find it so because there have not been many accomplishments. Nor has Mr. Byrd intended for there to be many.
Sen. Byrd was not sent to the Senate to be an achiever. He was sent there as a symbol of the granite integrity which Virginians like to think characterizes their public servants. He was also sent as a living monument to his father; as the steely-eyed and firmjawed personification of the Commonwealth's conservative virtue.
And Mr. Byrd’s conservatism is genuine. It springs from a bedrock cultural conviction. It is deep-grained; as steady as Virginia’s mighty rivers flowing over the Piedmont to the sea.
In the face of all this. Sen. Warner had about as much chance of upstaging Sen. Bvrd as he would of walking into the state Capitol retounda and upstaging the Houdon statue of Washington.
And so with the departure of Sen. Byrd. Sen. Warner is ready to step forward and assume the mantle of Virginia’s
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