All those Democratic senators that filibustered the 1964 Civil Rights act, they remained Democrat senators. They didn't switch to become Republican senators. Robert Byrd was a lawyer for the Klan. He was a Democrat senator. He was the dean of the Democratic Senate until the day he died. He didn't change parties. Now, I will acknowledge that Richard Nixon, in response to just political moves of that era, he started going into the south to try to go find the conservative Democrat … (36:04–36:14)
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Asserts that Robert Byrd, a Democratic senator, was a former Klan lawyer and did not change parties.
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