A Tribute to Styles Bridges

FORREST DAVIS and ALEX HILLMAN

When Styles. Bridges died in November of 1961 he had been almost to a day a United States Senator for 25 years; a quarter century during which the Republic underwent what history may well record as its severest trials. In later years he had been the Republican doyen of the Senate. He had been president pro tempore, majority and minority leader. To Washington he was “a senator’s senator.” To his party he was a wise, resourceful leader. Yet to the country, Senator Bridges’ skill at the parliamentary art, his mastery of the creaking machinery through which the Congress appropriates the huge federal budgets, his intimate knowledge of our involved military affairs were only apprehended and not wholly appreciated. Nor did the published obituaries disclose his true essence or his worth to the cause of orderly, rational government and the survival of the American society and the West.

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FORREST DAVIS and ALEX HILLMAN

When Styles. Bridges died in November of 1961 he had been almost to a day a United States Senator for 25 years; a quarter century during which the Republic underwent what history may well record as its severest trials. In later years he had been the Republican doyen of the Senate. He had been president pro tempore, majority and minority leader. To Washington he was “a senator’s senator.” To his party he was a wise, resourceful leader. Yet to the country, Senator Bridges’ skill at the parliamentary art, his mastery of the creaking machinery through which the Congress appropriates the huge federal budgets, his intimate knowledge of our involved military affairs were only apprehended and not wholly appreciated. Nor did the published obituaries disclose his true essence or his worth to the cause of orderly, rational government and the survival of the American society and the West.