Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years, Virginia's Harry Flood Byrd was the Senate's chief operating conservative. He made few speeches and he proclaimed no set ideology. But as Chairman of the Finance Committee, he opposed the spending plans of five Presidents, prepared his own budget to show how expenditures could be brought back in line with revenues. Across the Potomac, his Democratic squirearchy firmly ruled the Old Dominion, where Byrd started his career in the state sen ate 50 years ago this month...
Last week, painfully crippled by arthritis, 78-year-old Harry Byrd resigned from the Senate to make way for "someone younger." The someone, to no one's surprise, turned out to be Harry Byrd Jr., 50, appointed by Governor Albertis Harrison Jr. to fill his father's seat until next fall's elections...
...Hereditary Position?" It may have been the Byrd dynasty's swan song. As Republican Moderate A. Linwood Holton showed by racking up 38% of the vote in this month's gubernatorial election, Virginia is no longer an unchallenged Democratic fiefdom. "Little Harry," in some ways more rigidly conservative than his father, helped master mind the state's "massive resistance" campaign to school desegregation in 1959, is hardly likely to win the increas ingly influential votes of Virginia's Ne groes. If an attractive moderate opposes him in the Senate primary next July, Little Harry, a state...
...fact, for all his prestige, Old Harry Byrd's influence was greatly exaggerated. For despite his uncompromising fiscal orthodoxy, Byrd ran his committee according to his own courtly code. He refused to block the liberal bills he abhorred, and eschewed the quid pro quo tactics by which more ambitious politicians achieve their ends. Yet Byrd, as one Administration aide puts it, "was like a yellow blinker. You had to slow down when...
Machine candidates cannot count on beating either Democratic dissenters or Republican opponents without taking novel, perhaps even liberal stands on issues. That means that Harry Byrd, Jr., appointed to the Senate by outgoing Governor Harrison (who announced Byrd's resignation with tears in his eyes), will probably face a tough fight to retain his father's seat. Byrd, a veteran of the State Senate, is considered a political lightweight and will not be a particularly attractive candidate...