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Aware that businessmen almost reflexively equate Democrats with fiscal irresponsibility, Johnson set out to change that image. He succeeded by keeping his first budget under $100 billion and by halving the deficit. At the same time, he convinced key Congressmen-notably Senator Harry Byrd and Representative Millsthat he really aimed to keep a tight rein on federal spending. The result: the two men finally moved the $11.5 billion tax cut out of their committees, and Congress quickly passed it. Though Johnson's techniques of persuasion and manipulation have inevitably changed somewhat in the transition from legislative to executive branch...
...Howard Cannon New Jersey Harrison Williams Jr. New Mexico Joseph Montoya New York Robert F. Kennedy North Dakota Quentin Burdick Ohio *Stephen Young Oklahoma Fred Harris Pennsylvania Genevieve Blatt Rhode Island John Pastore Tennessee Albert Gore Ross Bass Texas Ralph Yarborough Utah Frank Moss Vermont Frederick Fayette Virginia Harry Byrd Washington Henry Jackson West Virginia Robert Byrd Wisconsin William Proxmire Wyoming Gale McGee REPUBLICANS Paul Fannin George Murphy John Lodae John Williams Claude Kirk Hiram Fong D.Russell Bontrager Clifford Mclntire J. Glenn Beall Howard Whitmore Jr. Mrs. Elly Peterson Wheelock Whitney No candidate Jean Bradshaw Alex Blewett Roman Hruska *Paul...
...ballot scored the state's greatest political upset in memory: Prentiss Walker, a hard-shell poultry farmer, ousted William Arthur Winstead, who had been in the House for 22 years. In rural Georgia, Republican Howard ("Bo") Callaway, a slick-campaigning textile millionaire, topped former Lieutenant Governor Garland T. Byrd, who was hurt by Johnson even though he had refused to go even halfway for L.B.J. In Alabama's eight districts, the G.O.P. put up candidates in six, won five. The victors: W. Jack ("Thank God for Goldwater") Edwards, William L. Dickinson, Glenn Andrews, John H. Buchanan, and James...
PRESIDENT Johnson 500,439 Goldwater 427,700 U.S. SENATOR Byrd...
PRESIDENT Johnson 440,205 Goldwater 207,225 U.S. SENATOR Byrd 475,127 Benedict...