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Among the senators who have tentativey agreed to meet with the Young Dems are Wayne Morse (D-Ore.), Philip Hart (D Mich.), Lister Hill (D-Ala.), Clinton Anderson (D-N.M.), Frank Church (d-Idaho), and Harry Byrd (D-Va.), Paul Doulas (D-Ill.), Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), and John McClellan (D Ark.). Three Administration officials--Sargent Shriver, director of the Peace Corps; McGeorge Bundy, special assistant to the President for national security affairs; and Robert F. Kennedy '48, attorney general--may also see the students...
...more than friendship, though, binds the two men. Thirty years in the company of politicians have instilled in White an ineradicable appreciation of the genus. He likes politicians, and they respond by liking him; such disparate types as Dwight Eisenhower, Harry Byrd, Richard Russell, Richard Nixon and the late Robert A. Taft all warmed to Columnist White. From White's host of friends, Johnson emerges as the man who best typifies all that Bill White says he values in the political craft. "He is a pragmatic man and not a theorist, an actionist and not a philosophic thinker," White...
Throughout the week Barry hit the theme of party unity, warning, "We can't afford the luxury of infighting." He said that he and Rocky were actually closer on the issue of "welfarism" than such Democrats as, say, Wayne Morse and Harry Byrd. But that still left them mighty far apart, and Barry could not resist wisecracking that a race between Rockefeller and Johnson "would be a choice of Tweedledee and Tweedledum...
Before Kennedy's death, the two bills were being bottled up by a pair of Virginians: Judge Howard Smith, who had a hammerlock on civil rights in his House Rules Committee, and Harry Byrd, who had the tax cut cooped up in his Senate Finance Committee. Eventually, both bills almost certainly would have been pried loose from their caretakers. But it was Johnson's masterful dealing with Congress that got both bills moving swiftly and both through without casualty...
...bill, calling for an $11.5 billion cut, was moved out of the Senate Finance Committee for floor debate, courtesy Chairman Harry Byrd. Virginia's Byrd was-and is-immovably committed to the proposition that a tax slash is "neither sound nor constructive" until the federal deficit is reduced. But he promised Lyndon Johnson that he would let the bill go. So he stepped aside and gave floor-management responsibilities to Louisiana's Russell Long, second-ranking Democrat on the Finance Committee. Long talked long and hard on the Senate floor, but it seemed his talents might...