Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Once again there are wolves in Cambridge, and lights the color of red-flannel birds whisk up the avenues past guitar-shaped Santas. One Christmas is so much like another these years, when cynics tell you "Yes, Virginia, there is a Harry Byrd," that the holidays become a habit, and an easily broken one at that...
...Alabama's eleven electors, only five are pledged to support Kennedy, but three of the unpledged six may also do so. Mississippi's eight electoral votes, also unpledged, may be given in protest to Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd...
Problems of the political future were still very much on Ike's mind when he landed in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. There his host was conservative Demo cratic Senator Harry Byrd, who has stubbornly refused to endorse his party's ticket, and all but urged his supporters to vote for Nixon and Lodge. With Byrd by his side, the President looked in on the drab little home at Mount Sidney where his mother was born, attended the annual luncheon of the Woodrow Wilson Birth place Foundation in nearby Staunton. (Notably absent was President Wilson's widow...
Virginia (12): Patriarch Harry Byrd has spoken no word for Kennedy, last week posed smilingly for pictures with speech-making Republican Eisenhower. Other state politicos are working hard for Kennedy, but it is still NIXON...
...with a Blast. Johnson found the political weather cool in Virginia's Byrd-land (where Senator Byrd is the only eminent Southern Democratic holdout), but it warmed almost immediately when the L.B.J. Special rolled into the Carolinas. At every whistle stop, politicians of every variety, from Senators to sheriffs, from South Carolina's Governor Ernest Rollings to Florida's Representative Bob ("He-Coon") Sikes, clambered happily aboard. There they were warmly and methodically greeted by L.B.J. and Lady Bird, photographed, endorsed, introduced, and ushered off with a blast of The Yellow Rose of Texas...