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Robert C. Byrd: “We do not intend to stop our efforts to serve the country; nor do we see this as the final bringing down of the curtain…”

On the recordNovember 12, 1980
We do not intend to stop our efforts to serve the country; nor do we see this as the final bringing down of the curtain on the majority leadership by my party. My party has been in the minority before, and we have come back.
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Robert C. Byrd
West Virginia
Source
govinfo.gov
Nov 12, 1980

Editor's note · Context

Responding to his party's loss of the Senate majority in the 1980 elections.

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