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Democrats tended to blame the President and his party, rather than the process. Senate Democratic Minority Leader Robert Byrd of West Virginia termed the veto "a manufactured Shootout." House Speaker Tip O'Neill was unusually personal, scoffing at Reagan: "He knows less about the budget than any President in my lifetime." But Massachusetts Republican Silvio Conte of the House Appropriations Committee put the blame more broadly on Congress, declaring, "We're the laughingstock of the nation." In fact, there was plenty of blame for all to share...
...times, the maneuvering degenerated into low farce. At one point, Senate Democratic Leader Robert Byrd introduced, and persuaded all those Democrats present to vote for, a series of taunting amendments to the continuing resolution. One would have declared the "sense of the Senate" to be that the budget had to be balanced by fiscal 1984, a goal that Reagan had long proclaimed but has now abandoned as unrealistic...
...music has long been treated like a poor relation in the world's concert halls-the sick man of Europe. German, Italian, French and Russian compositions make up the bulk of the standard repertory. But British music-with a rich tradition stretching from Tudor church composers like William Byrd to innovative moderns like Peter Maxwell Davies-is patronized as a national school, a sort of cultural Toby-jug collection, of interest chiefly to natives and diehard Anglophiles elsewhere...
...support for the presidency and the need for a strong hand in conducting foreign policy. He also reminded many of them of the help he had given them in their elections. With the Democrats, Reagan tended to emphasize the need for bipartisanship in foreign policy. Despite Democratic Leader Robert Byrd's strong speech against the sale a week before the vote, the Administration's vote counters felt that the tide had turned in their favor, though most polls showed opponents ahead...
...Byrd's decision was probably inevitable, given his standing as leader of the Democrats, who overwhelmingly oppose AWACS. His timing was devastating. The White House had lost momentum on all its arguments: that after the death of Anwar Sadat, the U.S. must support moderate Arab nations; that Israel was trying to dictate American policy; that the President's credibility was at stake; that the AWACS sale would make Saudi Arabia a bulwark against the Soviets...