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Absolute Monarch. It was 2 a.m. before the President returned to Washington, but he was up early the following morning to fly 70 miles via Marine helicopter to Winchester, Va., for the funeral of Senator Harry Byrd's wife "Sittie." After the services, Lyndon reached into the Senator's car, grasped his hand and kissed it in a genuine gesture of condolence. He whispered a few words to Byrd, and old Harry, who has crossed many a political sword with Johnson, brushed tears from his eyes...
This did not endear Hubert to the Senate's senior citizens. Neither did his performance the next year, when he denounced the conservative, economy-minded ideas of Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry Byrd. In response, a score of Senators, both Democratic and Republican, stood up and, without even mentioning Humphrey's name, delivered themselves of glowing tributes to Byrd. When Hubert tried to rebut, the entire Senate walked out on him in as crushing a rebuke as any Senator has ever suffered. Later, Humphrey met Byrd by chance in a Senate elevator and remarked ruefully...
...Harry Byrd was absent. So were Senators Dick Russell and Herman Talmadge, Russell Long and Allen Ellen-der, John Stennis and Jim Eastland, John Sparkman and Lister Hill. A full third of the South's Democratic Governors also stayed away from Atlantic City...
...PERSPECTIVE (Blue Note). More jazz hymns, by Veteran Trumpeter Donald Byrd, the son of a Methodist minister...
Schooled in classic composition, Byrd is writing spirituals with jazz textures and African rhythms. There are stretches of monotony, but mostly the music comes to life, catalyzed by the performance of the excellent small choir and combo. The Black Disciple is the most effective, with its unusual rushed rhythms...