Washington Post Remembrances: Klansman and Freemason Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.)

Wed, 13 May 2020 07:17:51 GMT

Many years later, when I was national president of the League of Women Voters, I attended one of Mr. Byrd's events on Capitol Hill and sought him out to confess my sins. I told him I had changed my mind about the voting age and also had become one of his enthusiastic supporters. But I also said that if I been able to vote in 1958, I wouldn't have chosen him because of his Klan membership.