Word: bryce
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...face-saving compromise. Mansfield, unwilling to saddle his party with the political responsibility for the death of the surtax, readily agreed to a six-month extension, retroactive to the June 30 expiration date of the original tax. The concession was good enough for Dirksen. He contacted White House Aide Bryce Harlow, who conferred with Treasury Secretary David Kennedy and accepted on behalf of the President...
...good reasons for such a show of temper. The document imposed on him by rebellious barons and bishops in a meadow called Runnymede was one of the first comprehensive written attempts to limit the powers of the English King and to set forth the rights of his subjects. Lord Bryce, the historian, has described it as "the starting point in the constitutional history of the English race." In The History of English Law, Frederick Pollock and Frederic William Maitland go even further. Magna Carta, they write, is "the nearest approach to an irrepealable 'fundamental statute' that England...
...rest of the staff occupies more conventional quarters. Special Assistants Bryce Harlow, Stanley Blair, and Dwight Chapin have space in the West Wing near the President's main office...
Despite his interest in the field and his general agreement with Nixon, Laird was reluctant to take a Cabinet post. Earlier, he had turned down Health, Education and Welfare, another area of his expertise. He pointed out to Nixon and to Bryce Harlow, who will be White House aide for congressional relations, that he had 16 years of congressional seniority, that he could help the Nixon program in the House, that he hoped to be House Speaker some day, that he was a lifelong legislator, not an administrator. Nixon's reply: "I need you." On Dec. 7, Laird yielded...
...choice of Bryce Harlow as chief congressional liaison man was one shrewd step. A former congressional staff member, White House aide in the Eisenhower Administration and lobbyist for Procter & Gamble, Harlow is widely known and respected by legislators of both parties. But more important than any staff appointment to date has been Nixon's determined effort to establish rapport with Chairman Wilbur Mills of the House Ways and Means Committee. With his almost total power over taxes, social security policy and related issues, Mills will be the single most important legislator in determining the success or failure of Nixon...