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remembered as a watershed , election in the annals of modern Virginia politics.
Harry F. Byrd Jr., the namesake of one the South’s most successful political machines and a seemingly impregnable candidate, found himself in a dogfight for the party’s U.S. Senate nomination with state Sen. Armistead Boothe in 1966. Byrd’s slim margin of victory —just nine-tenths of a percentage point of the 430,000 votes counted—was unheard of during the fourdecade reign of the steamrolling Byrd Machine.
Additionally, A. Willis Robertson, chairman of the Senate’s Banking and Finance Committee, and Congressman Howard W. Smith, chairman of the House Rules Committee
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