” I swear at one point during the run-up to the Clinton impeachment, Byrd was on TV and said that the President HAD committed high crimes and misdemeanors, but that he (Byrd) could get past that.”
Nothing wrong with your memory. I saw Byrd state this on TV at the time.
Do you remember a few months before that one Orrin G. Hatch of UT “begging” Clinton to “come clean”?