There were still deomocrats to get along with in those days. The blue dog was alive and well, at least in the South. Sherman, Lincoln, and Grant had not yet been dead for four generations.
Very true. As I recall that was very much a time of transition in politics, but it took a long time (too long) for many in the GOP to realize that people like Tip O’Neal and Ted Kennedy, among many other Democrats, were engaged in raw political warfare.