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Senate Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd, who lacks inherited wealth, seems rich in resourcefulness. He earned $1,900 in royalties from a country-music album on which he played the fiddle...
Carter had promised that he would make a decision on Rhodesia by June 15, and had written to Senate Majority Leader Robert Byrd urging him "not to support any initiative that would preempt existing law or prejudge the issue at stake." This is exactly what Senator Jesse Helms, the North Carolina Republican who has long supported the white Rhodesian cause, had been thumping for. When Helms' position seemed to be gaining strength last week, the Senate settled for a compromise resolution that was not legally binding on the President. But one senior White House aide acknowledged that "some policy...
SALT'S fate is going to depend on the Senate's remaining 20 or so members, who are genuinely undecided. Perhaps the two most important members of this swing group are the Senate's top party officials. Majority Leader Robert Byrd has carefully avoided committing himself. Said he: "I'll sit down and go over the treaty line by line and word by word." Active opposition by Byrd would probably doom the pact. Not so undecided is Minority Leader Howard Baker, whose backing last year was invaluable in the White House's successful drive...
...Robert Byrd, Senate majority leader, receiving a letter from Jimmy Carter to "Senator Bob Byrd": "I wish they'd call me 'Robert' down there...
...Henry Irwin, 62, a West Pointer and former lieutenant colonel who resigned from the Army in 1947 after marrying Phillips Petroleum Heiress Elizabeth Phillips, was best known as a maverick Oklahoma presidential elector. In 1960 he ignored his pledge to Richard Nixon and voted for Virginia Senator Harry Byrd. Last week a court approved a settlement in which Irwin will be paid $1,600 a month by his exwife, as long as he remains unmarried. She herself had proposed a payment because of his lack of income. "It was just something I wanted to do," she told newsmen. Nevertheless...