Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Condition. Next came Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry Byrd, the Finance Committee chairman. In formed by Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield that the President wanted to talk to him, Byrd telephoned the White House. Said Lyndon: "Harry, I want you to come down here and see me tomorrow. I want to draw on your wisdom." When Byrd hung up, he turned to a visitor, his eyes twinkling. "You know what that means," he said. "He wants to work on me a little...
...indeed, and Byrd got the full treatment-including a lunch of potato soup and salad, and a tour around the President's Oval Office, the Cabinet Room, the White House swimming pool, and even, as Byrd later described it, a "little room where he gets his rub." What Lyndon wanted was a promise from Byrd that the Finance Committee would, early in January, report out a bill for a tax cut retroactive to Jan. 1, 1964. Byrd agreed-but only on condition that Johnson first gave the Finance Committee a look at next year's proposed budget figures...
...supporting a compromise bill-give the Congress a chance to get the civil rights bill behind it before adjournment. The tax-cut bill, which has already passed the House, remains the subject of lengthy hearings before the Senate Finance Committee, chaired by Virginia's Conservative Democrat Harry Byrd; even after Johnson's speech, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield could promise only that the bill would be first on the agenda for floor debate when the Senate reconvenes next January...
...testified on the tax bill. Gore sarcastically criticized Heller's economics, and Ribicoff snapped: "I think the Administration is painting itself into a pretty tight corner. You are going to have to spend more." Heller got such a rough going-over from the liberals that conservative Harry Byrd hardly had to do any work...
Whose consciousness about what is not Mr. Byrd's concern here, "charmed" as he is by Henry James's "personal touch." Now this is the kind of Jacobite Can't that drove me to distraction--and to laughter--during five long years. Fellow students of Harvard, I submit you have a concealed Jacobite Fellow-Traveler at the very center of your communications network! Fellow students of Harvard, I ask you to beware of these Jacobites! I say the problem is not to "Stamp Out Henry James"--as has been suggested--but to keep a stern watch upon these hidden Jamesians...