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...Byrd Tree...
...Harry Byrd should be Man of the Year for protecting the American people from the Boy of the Year...
...fact was that President Kennedy had run into some rutty political detours. It had become increasingly evident that he could not get Congress to approve a quick tax cut; among those opposing any such move were both Wilbur Mills, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, and Harry Byrd, chairman of the Senate Finance Committee. And early in August a Gallup poll reported that 72% of the voters opposed immediate tax reduction if it meant that the Government would go deeper into debt. At that point Kennedy found himself in the position of a business executive who 1) drafts...
...when a few anti-cloture Senators had good excuses to be away from Washington-Arkansas' William Fulbright found that he had a speaking engagement in New York, Nevada's Alan Bible and Arizona's Carl Hayden were on business trips home. At voting time, Virginians Harry Byrd and Willis Robertson, North Carolina's B. Everett Jordan and Arkansas' John McClellan simply stayed away. Explained McClellan later: "I would never vote for cloture, but I wasn't going to help those people [the Morse band]." Similarly, such anti-clo-ture Senators as West Virginia...
...achieve civil rights legislation, some have made it a cardinal point to ease the cloture rule. They have insisted that the rule, by its requirements, amounts to a prohibition against cloture. Last week they were proved wrong, and the significance was happily explained by Virginia's Harry Byrd. Said he: "We can point to this vote as proof that no rule change is needed-that the Senate can invoke cloture under the present rule any time it really is of a mind to." As for the satellite bill itself, it was approved by the Senate at week...