director witmore: yes, robert byrd was the cicero senator, and he used ornate clauses and that is onef the distinctive things about him that worked on the floor. brian lamb: we have a clip of him on the senate floor talking about him using shakespeare. [video clip] senator byrd: oh that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth, then with a passion would i shake the world, one drop of blood, drawn from by country's -- thy country's bosom. aye, it is written having such a jewel, and these covering heavens fall like dew to inlay heaven with stars. as these, covering heavens call on the heads -- fall on the heads like dew. as we leave for the evening, give me my robe, put on my crown, i have immortal longings in me. brian lamb: what did you hear? director witmore: i heard a very theatrical senator. he picks passages that are so poetic and full of images, and he also moves around, you also notice he has his hand moving here, he is almost ready to move around, he almost sounds like an english professor. brian lamb: what would you say to somebody like me who is not a shakespeare expert, how wou

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director witmore: yes, robert byrd was the cicero senator, and he used ornate clauses and that is one of the distinctive things about him that worked on the floor. brian lamb: we have a clip of him on the senate floor talking about him using shakespeare. [video clip] senator byrd: oh that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth, then with a passion would i shake the world, one drop of blood, drawn from thy country's bosom. should grieve thee more than streams of foreign gore. aye, it is written having such a jewel, and these covering heavens fall like dew to inlay heaven with stars. as we leave for the evening, give me my robe, put on my crown, i have immortal longings in me. brian lamb: what did you hear? director witmore: i heard a very theatrical senator. he picks passages that are so poetic and full of images, and he also moves around, you also notice he has his hand moving here, he is almost ready to move around, he almost sounds like an english professor. brian lamb: what would you say to somebody like me who is not a shakespeare expert, how would you explain it to me? director wi

reid: three decades ago when senator robert byrd began drafting a series of lectures on the history of the united states senate who did he go to for help? don ritchie. ten years ago when dan bowen the popular author of the bestseller "the da vinci code" wanted information about the capitol for his new novel where did he go? don ritchie. even now when famed his for i don't know and biographer robert carro needs facts for his five-volume work on lyndon johnson, he goes to don ritchie for help. for 39 years any person needing valuable insight into the united states senate and its history has known where to go. the senate historian don ritchie. don has obliged sharing his wealth of knowledge with anyone who asks -- senators, staff authors, historians, visitors. but after nearly 40 decades don will officially retire from the senate historical office at the end of this month as the senior senator from kentucky has just stated. from his first day in the senate, don ritchie made this institution a better place. the first ever senate historian don's predecessor richard baker once said -- and i

brian lamb: let's go back to the way that we began with robert c. byrd, deceased senator from west virginia on the floor of the senate. [video clip] senator byrd: valentine, speaking to proteus. in "the two gentlemen of verona." speaking of his beloved sylvia when he said, i come as rich as having such a jewel as 20 seas. if all the sand were pearl, the water, nectar, and the rocks pure gold. valentine could just has well have been speaking of a good solid, well-rounded education. aye, as rich as having such a jewel as 20 seas. if all the sand were pearl, the water, nectar, and the rocks pure gold. brian lamb: how does someone do that? director witmore: well, some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. i think that he was a natural. i think that he probably had a great memory for shakespeare but what he does there, he doesn't just quote shakespeare he performs it. and then he says why it matters. he says -- well, it is kind of a puffball of a play -- many people don't read it or see it, but he has read it, and h