The telephone atop Washington's airport control tower jangled, and a Texas drawl exhorted, "Damn it, I've got a Senator up there somewhere on Northwest's Flight 300. He's two hours overdue and I want him down quick. He's got to vote. You better be awful sure he's not stacked up there." Minutes after Senate Democratic Leader Lyndon Johnson's telephone call one afternoon last week, Minnesota's airbound Senator Hubert Humphrey landed and was whisked across the Potomac in a Capitol police squad car, sirens ayowl. He arrived on the Senate floor, just in time to...
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