Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have had occasions to visit with Senator Byrd in his Washington office and have attended his annual August picnics. I can attest to the fact that if there is one man who is responsible for keeping our country from going completely socialistic since the Roosevelt era, that man would be the gentleman from Virginia...
...political life Senator Harry Byrd has been guided by a few simple and unchanging maxims about business and government. Today he is an intellectual fossil. His retirement will be a blessing because he gives some small measure of dignity to ideas whose only relevance to the U.S.'s pressing domestic problems is to obstruct their solution...
Regarding your article on the Honorable Senator Harry F. Byrd: Is the axiom that the laws ought to "be enforced by the white people of this country" one of the lessons this man of reminiscences is to teach to "that attractive young fellow in the White House...
...Harry Byrd should be Man of the Year for protecting the American people from the Boy of the Year...
...fact was that President Kennedy had run into some rutty political detours. It had become increasingly evident that he could not get Congress to approve a quick tax cut; among those opposing any such move were both Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Harry Byrd, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. And early in August a Gallup poll reported that 72% of the voters opposed immediate tax reduction if it meant that the Government would go deeper into debt. At that point Kennedy found himself in the position of a business executive who 1) drafts...