Word: byrds
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...President's man," Senate I Majority Leader Robert Byrd keeps saying. "I am the Senate's man." As Congress reconvenes this week after a month's recess, President Carter may well wonder just who, if anybody, is the President's man. His friends are displaying a new balkiness, his enemies a new boldness. While mounting opposition to a President is predictable, Carter is especially dependent on a dexterous balancing of allies who have little, if anything, in common. These allies are bound to grow impatient with one another and especially with Carter. As that happens, Carter...
...Ellsworth Bunker and Sol Linowitz, California Republican Ronald Reagan informed a convention of the Young Americans for Freedom: "I told the ambassadors not to get their hopes too high. I do not believe we should ratify this treaty." Also distressing was the decision of Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd to delay his personal decision on the treaty until after Senate hearings. While having lunch with Carter at the White House, Byrd told the President that he had "an uphill road to travel for ratification." A foretaste of how emotional the debate may be was provided by retired Congressman Hamilton...
Ashley claims that when Bell learned that he and Gravitt were planning to expose such practices, the company started investigating their private lives. Houston Psychiatrist Gary J. Byrd told the court two weeks ago that Bell had "harassed" Gravitt until he committed suicide. Ashley claims that a Bell vice president at Gravitt's funeral warned him not to join the dead man's family in a suit against the company, saying "You file that suit and the Bell employees will hound you to death. That son of a bitch [Gravitt] lies in the grave-you're next...
...Senate. "Anybody who says he has an accurate head count now is crazy," said Carter Aide Hamilton Jordan, who is coordinating White House ratification efforts. "There are guys on record as being against the treaty who I think will eventually support it." As for Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd's suggestion that the vote be delayed until next year, Jordan said simply: "We certainly don't want an early vote if we're going to lose...
Careful Letter. By week's end, everybody seemed ready to cool down somewhat. In Washington, nine Senators, including Foreign Relations Committee Chairman John Sparkman, Majority Leader Robert Byrd and Minnesota's Hubert Humphrey, wrote a careful letter of "support" to Carter, which nevertheless reminded him of the U.S. commitment to Israel's security and endorsed the idea of a nonimposed settlement. The State Department message, insisted Assistant Secretary Alfred Atherton, was "certainly not intended as a threat of any sort" to Israel. At his press conference Carter declared a Washington moratorium on any "additional comments on specifics...