Word: byrds
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dissent; others, too, joined in. The humiliating diplomatic rebuff suffered by the U.S. only a few days before, when Chiang Kai-shek's Chinese government-in-exile had been chucked out of the U.N. in spite of energetic American lobbying, still rankled. The last Senate speaker was Harry Byrd Jr. of Virginia. His final words: "Mr. President, I shall vote against this bill...
...fourth name, from a border state, that of West Virginia's Senator Robert Byrd, appeared on the list of prospects, but he was never under serious consideration. After Nixon accompanied Byrd two weeks ago on a one-day trip to West Virginia, the Washington Daily News reported that Byrd was the President's personal choice for Black's seat. The report was false; the White House assumption is that the Senator or his political allies floated the rumor, and to avoid antagonizing Byrd, who is the Senate majority whip, the Administration added his name to the list submitted...
...Crow. An organizer for the Ku Klux Klan in the '40s, an affiliation he has since recanted, Byrd, 53, has a less than statesmanlike record in the Senate. There he has consistently sided with Southern conservatives on civil rights issues and is noted for his "industry" rather than his legal erudition or constitutional insight. Indeed, he has never practiced law. He earned his law degree in 1963 by studying at night, and has yet to pass a bar examination. Even Attorney General John Mitchell demurred when Byrd's name was raised. But one account has it that Treasury...
Connally's thesis, reportedly, was that picking Byrd would make the Senate eat crow. After rejecting Haynsworth and Carswell, it would now be faced with rejecting one of its own members. Even Byrd's Senate critics would find themselves in a corner. Connally argued that the Senate would have to approve him because he was a member of the club. The assessment was probably correct. A quiet Administration nose count indicated that fewer than ten Senators would vote...
...speculation-and dismay-over a Byrd nomination spread, however, White House sources began insisting that he was not a serious candidate. Yet his name appeared on the list of potential appointees submitted to the American Bar Association last week. The others...