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Inevitably, there was a babble of conflicting suggestions (balance the budget to curb inflation, start public works programs to fight unemployment) and a good deal of general exhortation about the need for a strong hand on the national tiller. Democratic Senate Leader Robert Byrd thundered: "Mr. President, someone has said, 'Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.' Once the American people understand the problem and rally in support of leadership, there is no problem they can't overcome." Connecticut Governor Ella Grasso advised Carter to "go out on the stump and talk to the people...
Monday, July 9, the legislators: Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd and 13 Senators; House Speaker Tip O'Neill and 15 Congressmen...
...While Byrd did not receive explicit assurances from the Soviets, he believes that they would acquiesce to some reservations to help get the treaty through the Senate. What Moscow could do is make a distinction between substantial changes to the actual text of the treaty and reservations or understandings attached to the Senate's Resolution of Ratification, the parliamentary instrument by which the upper chamber approves treaties. U.S. legal practice makes no such distinction: understandings and reservations are just as binding on both parties to an accord as an amendment to the treaty itself. But the Soviets might...
What he wrote down-as well as what he specifically told the Soviet leaders -was kept secret. To reporters in Moscow, Byrd merely said: "I did not come here expecting simple answers. I asked questions, made suggestions and observations. It may take some time for it to be known what the Soviet response will...
...Byrd acknowledged that his views on SALT had been influenced by his talks with the Soviets. Said he: "What I have heard here will help me consider." As one of the Senate's most powerful members, he could play the pivotal role in determining the treaty's fate. On leaving Moscow, Byrd said: "I will not make up my own mind immediately. I will await at least some of the hearings." Those hearings were scheduled to begin this week when the Senate Foreign Relations Committee opens the great debate by calling two of SALT'S strongest supporters...