TO RUN FOR REELECTION TO THE SENATE IN THE 1984 RACE, JENNINGS
           SAID, "IT'S BEEN A HAPPY ROAD. I HAVE NO REGRETS. I BELIEVE THE
           BIBE SAYS, THERE IS A SEASON AND A TIME FOR EVERY PURPOSE. IT
           IS TOMB FOR ME NOT TO RUN FOR REELECTION. IT IS TIME FOR ME NOT
           TO RUN FOR REELECTION. MR. PRESIDENT, THAT HAPPY ROAD WAS AN

           UNPARALLELED EXAMPLE OF CITIZENSHIP AND PUBLIC SERVICE SERVICE.
           IN AN ERA IN WHICH SO MANY SEEM PREOCCUPIED PRIMARILY WITH
           GRASPING AND GRABBING FOR THEM SERVINGS JENNINGS RANDOLPH WAS
           COMMITTED TO EXERTING HIMSELF. HIS INTELLECT, HIS ENERGY, HIS
           CONSIDERABLE TALENTS ON BEHALF AND IN BEHALF OF HIS FELLOW
           CITIZENS, HIS FELLOW WEST VIRGINIANS, HIS FELLOW AMERICANS, HIS

           FELLOW HUMAN, -- HIS FELLOW HUMAN BEINGS. JENNINGS LIVED A LONG
           TIME, A FULL AND ACTIVE LIFMTE BUT ALL OF US HIGH AND LOW, RICH
           AND POOR, MUST ONE DAY SAY GOODBYE TO FRIENDS AND LOVED ONES IN
           THIS EARTHLY LIFE AND MAKE OUR JOURNEYS TO THAT UNKNOWN BORN

           FROM WHICH NO TRAVELER RETURNS. IT WAS ON LAST FRIDAY MORNING
           THAT THE PALLIED MESSENGER, WITH THE INVERTED TORCH, BECKONED
           JENNINGS TO DEPART. AND JENNINGS'S PASSING REMINDS ME OF THOMAS
           MORSE'S LINES. "WHEN I REMEMBER ALL, THE FRIENDS SO LINKED

           TOGETHER, I'VE SEEN AROUND ME FALL LIKE LEAVES IN WINTERY
           WEATHER, I FEEL LIKE ONE WHO TREADS ALONE ALONE, SOME BANQUET
           HALL DESERTED, WHOSE LIGHTS HAVE FLED, WHOSE GARLAND IS DEAD,
           AND ALL BUT HE DEPARTED." NOW, WHETHER JENNINGS ON THAT LAST

           MORNING SAW A MORE GLORIOUS SUN RISE WITH UNIMAGINABLE SPLENDOR
           ABOVE THE CELESTIAL HORIZON, WHETHER HIS DECKS STRUS --
           DEXTROUS AND DISCIPLINED FACULTIES ARE NOW CONTENDING IN A
           HIGHER SENATE THAN OURS FOR SUPREMACY, WHETHER HE YET REMEMBERS
           US AS WE REMEMBER HIM, WE DO NOT KNOW KNOW. THESE QUESTIONS ARE

           MUCH LIKE THE QUESTION THAT CAME FROM THE LIPS OF THAT OLD
           PATRIOT -- PATRIARCH, THAT MAN FROM THE LAND OF OZ WHOSE NAME
           WAS JOBE. AND HIS QUESTION WAS, IF A MAN DIES, SHALL HE LIVE
           AGAIN?
           WE HAVE THE CONSOLATION THAT WAS EXPRESSED BY THAT SAME MAN
           ABOVE. WAS IT MY WORDS WERE WRITTEN IN A BOOK AND ENGRAVED WITH

           AN IRON PEN AND LED IN THE ROCK FOREVER. I KNOW MA MY REDEEMER
           LIVETH AND SOME DAY HE SHALL STAND UPON THE EARTH. SO JENNINGS
           RANDOLPH HAS CROSSED THE GREAT DIVIDE. I THINK OF OTHERS WHO
           SERVED IN THIS CHAMBER WHO WERE SERVING HERE WHEN JENNINGS

           RANDOLPH AND I TOOK THE OATH OF OFFICE TO SERVE IN THIS
           CHAMBER. IT WAS ALMOST 40 YEARS AGO. I REMEMBER SENATORS ON
           BOTH SIDES OF THE AISLE, SENATOR AIKEN, SENATOR ANDERSON OF NEW
           MEXICO, SENATOR HARRY BYRD SR. OF VIRGINIA, SENATOR CAPEHART OF

           INDIANA, CHAVEZ OF NEW MEXICO, COOPER OF KENTUCKY, DIRKSEN,
           DOUGLAS OF ILLINOIS EASTMAN AND ELEN DEFMT ER -- ELENDER, FUL
           BRIGHT, HAYDEN, HENININGS OF MISSOURI, HICKEN HICKENLOOPER OF

           IOWA, HILL OF ALABAMA, HOLLAND OF FLORIDA, "SCOOP" JACKSON OF
           WASHINGTON, JOHNSON OF TEXAS, JOHNSTON OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
           LANGER OF NORTH DAKOTA, MCCLELLAND OF ARKANSAS, MAGNUSON OF
           WASHINGTON, WAYNE MORRIS OF OREGON, MURRAY OF MONTANA, WHICH

           WILL LIST ROBERTSON OF VIRGINIA, RICHARD RUSSELL, SOWTENSTALL
           OF MASSACHUSETTS, STENNIS OF MISSISSIPPI, SIMIN SIMINGTON OF
           MISSISSIPPI, YOUNG -- MILTON YOUNG. ALL OF THESE AND OTHERS
           WERE HERE, BUT AS THAT ILLUSTRIOUS BAND WHICH SAT IN THIS

           CHAMBER WHEN JENNINGS RANDOLPH AND I FIRST ENTERED THE SENATE,
           ONLY STROM THURMOND AND I REMAIN HERE. SO, MR. PRESIDENT,
           THEY'RE DRIFTING AWAY, THESE FRIENDS OF OLD, LIKE LEAVES ON A
           CURRENT CAST, WITH NEVER A BREAK IN THEIR RAPID FLOW, WE COUNT

           THEM AS ONE-BY-ONE THEY GO INTO THE DREAMLAND OF THE PAST. IRMA
           AND I EXTEND OUR CONDOLENCES TO JENNINGS'S SONS SONS, JAY AND
           FRANK, AND TO OTHERS OF HIS FAMILY. MR. PRESIDENT, I YIELD THE
           FLOOR AND I SUGGEST THE ABSENCE OF A QUORUM.
           

           THE PRESIDING OFFICER: THE CLERK WILL CALL THE ROLL.
           
{END: 1998/05/11 TIME: 12-45 , Mon.  105TH SENATE, SECOND SESSION}