Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting was cordial. And after it was all over, President Kennedy escorted the senior Senator from Virginia out of the White House oval office. Said Kennedy good-naturedly: "Senator Byrd and I have agreed on everything." Everybody within earshot knew, of course, that the complete opposite was true...
...outer office, Harry Byrd ran into Presidential Aide Lawrence O'Brien. Only a few weeks before, O'Brien had attended one of Byrd's superb spring parties at Rosemont, his estate in Berryville, Va. Now, Byrd shook O'Brien's hand: "It was certainly nice of you to come down to my place the other day. We enjoyed having you." When Byrd left, another presidential aide incredulously asked O'Brien: "He's the guy who's against...
...next year. As it happens, the fiscal 1962 budget deficit is expected to hit at least $7 billion. And estimates of the deficit for the next fiscal year run all the way from nothing (Kennedy's, with several ifs) to $10 billion. Said Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee: "We are told that the fiscal situation will be all right if we balance the federal budget over a cycle of years, and that this will be taken care of automatically if the Federal Government will only spend enough to raise the gross national...
...hard fact is that continuing deficits ultimately end in bankruptcy." Although Byrd is considered old shoe by the New Frontier, he has for almost 30 years kept a discerning eye on the Government's fiscal policies-and knows a bit about such matters. His remarks reflect a general edginess about the Administration's fiscal policies. H. Ladd Plumley, new president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, last week expressed the feeling that the Kennedy Administration was really trying to get along with business...
Thomas Alva Edison, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Admiral Richard E. Byrd were at various times regular customers of the book shops. Franklin Roosevelt once attributed the origin of his Hyde Park library, and his interest in collecting books and historiana, to the wise tutelage of Cornhill proprietors...