Word: byrds
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...Electoral College and its arbitrary powers, while preserving the system of electoral votes. In 1960, for example, John Kennedy won in both Alabama and Mississippi, but 14 electors from those states ignored the will of the voters and cast their electoral votes for Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd. Under Johnson's proposal, each state's electoral votes would count only for the candidate who carries the state. Under the present system, moreover, the Electoral College can choose anybody-not necessarily the Vice President-elect-to be President if the President-elect dies before inauguration. By wiping...
Says Pragmatist Bliss: "If the Democratic Party is big enough for Harry Byrd and Hubert Humphrey, then the Republican Party is big enough for Jack Javits and Barry Goldwater." Which does not alter the fact that, for all of Bliss's avoidance of ideology, the party will need ideas-and obviously they will have to come from the Javits forces rather than the Goldwater side. In fact, New York's Senator Javits last week suggested that the National Committee "set in motion the machinery to call a national conclave to replace" the current Republican platform, because "we will...
Aware that businessmen almost reflexively equate Democrats with fiscal irresponsibility, Johnson set out to change that image. He succeeded by keeping his first budget under $100 billion and by halving the deficit. At the same time, he convinced key Congressmen-notably Senator Harry Byrd and Representative Millsthat he really aimed to keep a tight rein on federal spending. The result: the two men finally moved the $11.5 billion tax cut out of their committees, and Congress quickly passed it. Though Johnson's techniques of persuasion and manipulation have inevitably changed somewhat in the transition from legislative to executive branch...
PRESIDENT Johnson 500,439 Goldwater 427,700 U.S. SENATOR Byrd...
PRESIDENT Johnson 440,205 Goldwater 207,225 U.S. SENATOR Byrd 475,127 Benedict...