Byrd Dogging The Senate
April 13, 2007 at 9:36 am
Dana Milbank captures Sen. Robert Byrd talking about his pet:
“There is a unique, special relationship between pets, like my little dog,” he said. “She is a Shih Tzu. They were lap dogs. They were trained to be lap dogs in the palace in Tibet, China.”
The senator was just beginning. “Dogs — I could talk a lot about dogs. I can tell you about great dogs in history. Truman, Harry Truman, former president, said, ‘If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.’ Or buy a dog. But I have a dog. Her name, by my wife Erma, is Trouble. Now, I call her Baby.”
And soon, undoubtedly, there will be countless federally-funded highways and buildings in West Virginia named Baby.
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