Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yahoo!" whooped Robert Byrd, the Senate majority leader. Standing on the dais in a crowded Washington banquet room, the usually dour West Virginia Democrat tore off his dinner jacket, rolled up his sleeves, picked up a fiddle and began sawing away. Some 1,300 hand-clapping, foot-stomping guests at the Washington Press Club's annual salute to Congress followed him through rousing choruses of Rye Whiskey, Cumberland Gap and the new Administration's anthem, Amazing Grace. "My word," cried one amused Senator, South Carolina's Fritz Hollings, "they're going to have us all born...
Carter also had to make a point of soothing some ruffled congressional leaders. At breakfast in the White House, Senate Majority Leader Byrd and House Speaker Tip O'Neill complained that he was not consulting them enough. They were especially miffed that their advice had not been sought on energy policy. "Obviously we should do that, and we will do it," said Carter softly-with a nod to Frank Moore, his chief of congressional liaison. Moore was criticized during the transition period for not touching enough bases on Capitol Hill and not returning Congressmen's phone calls...
News Item: Alton Byrd on way to setting assist record...
...CONGRESS Hot Tip, Smart Byrd And A Gush of Good Will
...number of political pundits have pointed out, the crucial factor underlying Byrd's liberal support was the fact that virtually every one of his colleagues owed him a political debt of one sort or another; Byrd had skillfully used his position as majority whip to curry favor among his colleagues by aiding them in putting through pet pieces of legislation. Of course the liberals came up with a number of rationalizations for their support of Byrd, the primary one being that with a Democratic president in the White House, the Majority Leader's ideology was relatively unimportant...