john randolph of virginia representative randolph. clay shot a hole through randolph's coat, whereupon randolph shot into the air with his pistol, throughhis pistol down, sure cans with clay, and said, you owe me a coat. consider a bitterness over a nomination, that the senate would never be the same again. one will see that the senate has been here a long time, 200 years, and its roots go far deeper than 1789. >> i want you to talk about this set of photographs george tames of "the new york times" took them. there's a whole series of them. why did you include these? >> theodore francis was about 90 years old when this picture was taken. he was chairman of the foreign relations committee in the senate. one of the newspapers had recommended that green give up the chairmanship. and green was about to give it up, and so stated. well, lyndon johnson wanted green to carry out his decision, but he wanted to make green feel that lyndon johnson, who was the leader, would like for him to stay. that is a picture following a meeting of the committee when johnson had ostensibly to try to prevail on green to stay on as chairman, and green had said h