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filling a speaking engagement.
He invited me to join him and we talked at some length about the role he envisioned for himself as lieutenant governor and about the future of the Democratic Party in Virginia.
Reynolds foresaw with keen prescience the deep ruptures in the party that were just beginning to take shape, the life or death struggle between the Old Byrd Organization and the liberal-populist forces led by Henry Howell and George Rawlings Jr.
Yet Reynolds, a pragmatic and charismatic politician, somehow seemed to transcend all that. Amazingly, he had enthusiastic supporters within all the factions of his own party and maintained an open door policy that kept him in touch with those various elements.
When Reynolds left the State Senate, a young black Richmond lawyer named Doug Wilder replaced him. After his death, Henry Howell was elected lieutenant governor in a special election for the post.
Those of us in the political press corps had a high regard for Sarge Reypolds because of his remarkable integrity and honesty. I can still recall the Shad Planking of 1971 when Reynolds was invited to be the featured speaker and in the heart of the region that had most enthusiastically supported Massive Resistance to desegregation roundly denounced the elforts that had been made to evade what the Supreme Court had decreed was the law of the land.
That talk was enough to finish him with what was left of the old conservative organization, but a few months later Reynolds was dead.
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