Robert Byrd: U.S. Senator 1959-2010 (20 images)

Secretary of State George Schultz (L) confers with Senate Majority Leader Senator Robert Byrd D-West Virginia in the latter's office March 26, 1987. (UPI Photo/Leighton Mark)

Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd presents the “1987 Sentinel of Democracy Award” to Violetta Chamorro, publisher of the La Prensa newspaper in Managua, during a ceremony on March 27, 1987 in Washington at the Capitol. La Prensa, the oldest newspaper in Nicaragua, was prohibited from operating by the Nicaraguan government in April of 1986. Looking on are Jim Keenen (C), member of the Board of Directors of the Center for Democracy, and Alen Weinstein (R), Director of the Center for Democracy. (UPI Photo/Leighton Mark/Files)

Washington, DC -- January 04, 1985 --- President Ronald Reagan meets with a bipartisan group of Congressional leaders 1/4/1985 in the Cabinet Room. Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole, R-Kansas (C) and Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd, D-West Virgnia listen to the President. --- (UPI Photo//Bill Fitz-Patrick/The White House)

On the eve of his departure for his Moscow summit meeting, President Richard Nixon briefed a bipartisan group of Congressional leaders at the White House on May 19, 1972. Shown here, LTR: Secretary of State William Rogers; Sen. Robert Byrd (majority whip); Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield; Pres. Nixon; and Rep. Gerald Ford, House Minority Leader. (UPI Photo/Darryl Heikes/Files)