Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...register in Virginia and vote for Senator Byrd?" someone asked...
Absolute Monarch. It was 2 a.m. before the President returned to Washington, but he was up early the following morning to fly 70 miles via Marine helicopter to Winchester, Va., for the funeral of Senator Harry Byrd's wife "Sittie." After the services, Lyndon reached into the Senator's car, grasped his hand and kissed it in a genuine gesture of condolence. He whispered a few words to Byrd, and old Harry, who has crossed many a political sword with Johnson, brushed tears from his eyes...
This did not endear Hubert to the Senate's senior citizens. Neither did his performance the next year, when he denounced the conservative, economy-minded ideas of Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry Byrd. In response, a score of Senators, both Democratic and Republican, stood up and, without even mentioning Humphrey's name, delivered themselves of glowing tributes to Byrd. When Hubert tried to rebut, the entire Senate walked out on him in as crushing a rebuke as any Senator has ever suffered. Later, Humphrey met Byrd by chance in a Senate elevator and remarked ruefully...
...Harry Byrd was absent. So were Senators Dick Russell and Herman Talmadge, Russell Long and Allen Ellen-der, John Stennis and Jim Eastland, John Sparkman and Lister Hill. A full third of the South's Democratic Governors also stayed away from Atlantic City...
Died. Anne Douglas ("Sittie") Byrd, 77, wife of Virginia's senior Senator, who cared little for politics or the Washington whirl, even to the point of skipping her husband's annual apple-orchard picnics, but refused to let her desire for his retirement stand in his way, graciously announcing before the 1958 elections that "I do not believe my hopes should obstruct the judgment of those better informed who believe he can render valuable public service"; of a heart attack; in Berryville...