1.   Jackson spent his undergraduate years at Dartmouth, creating a lifelong affiliation with the school.

2.   Democratic senators said they, too, had been told Jeffords would end his lifelong affiliation with the GOP.

3.   He maintained a lifelong affiliation with that part of the world.

4.   In another irony, Jeffords voted for the measure that helped drive him from his lifelong affiliation with the GOP.

5.   Jeffords, R-Vt., formally ends his lifelong affiliation with the Republican Party when the Senate finishes its business Tuesday.