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...President's aim was to convince Congress that his Administration will be frugal. As he revealed the big surprises of his speech, he stared straight out at such economy-minded legislators as Virginia's Senator Harry Byrd and House Republican Leader Charles Halleck. The fiscal 1965 budget that Johnson will send to Congress next week, he said slowly and stressing every word, will "call for total expenditures of $97.9 billion-compared to $98.4 billion for the current year, a reduction of more than $500 million. It will call for new obligational authority of $103.8 billion -a reduction...
...generally friendly competitors in Antarctica, freely lend each other equipment and food, pool weather information, even regularly exchange scientists. If Antarctica's scientists no longer undergo the fearful ordeals of earlier generations of explorers, they still pursue the same high ideal that impelled such heroes as Amundsen, Byrd and Scott. That quest, in the lines from Tennyson's Ulysses, was defined on the cross that stands in memory of Scott and his men, who died returning from the South Pole...
...spend Yuletide with the men assigned to U.S. Antarctic bases. It might be chilly, but the trip offers an unaccustomed bonus. Spellman will celebrate three Christmas Masses because of the international date line; a midnight Mass at McMurdo, then an 800-mile flight for a Christmas Day Mass at Byrd, and finally across the date line for another midnight Mass at the Amundsen-Scott South Pole station. "I only hope," he said as he left, "that those whom I meet will be as happy to see me as I will be to see them...
...Condition. Next came Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry Byrd, the Finance Committee chairman. In formed by Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield that the President wanted to talk to him, Byrd telephoned the White House. Said Lyndon: "Harry, I want you to come down here and see me tomorrow. I want to draw on your wisdom." When Byrd hung up, he turned to a visitor, his eyes twinkling. "You know what that means," he said. "He wants to work on me a little...
...indeed, and Byrd got the full treatment-including a lunch of potato soup and salad, and a tour around the President's Oval Office, the Cabinet Room, the White House swimming pool, and even, as Byrd later described it, a "little room where he gets his rub." What Lyndon wanted was a promise from Byrd that the Finance Committee would, early in January, report out a bill for a tax cut retroactive to Jan. 1, 1964. Byrd agreed-but only on condition that Johnson first gave the Finance Committee a look at next year's proposed budget figures...