From left, U.S. Sens. Dennis Chavez (D-N.M.), Ernest W. McFarland (D-Ariz., the Senate majority leader) and Lyndon B. Johnson (D-Texas, the Senate majority whip) talked during the funeral for Sen. Virgil Chapman of Kentucky on March 11, 1951, at the Lafayette Hotel in downtown Lexington. A 25-year veteran of Congress, Chapman was killed in an auto accident in Washington. He was a University of Kentucky law graduate and was buried in Paris Cemetery in Paris. Twelve years after this photo was taken, Johnson would become president after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Herald-Leader Archive Photo