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...body amenable. With that in mind, the Presi dent permitted his Senate leaders to attach a modified form of the King-Anderson medicare bill as an amendment to an unre lated welfare bill. This had the advantage of bypassing the Senate Finance Commit tee, headed by Medicare Foe Harry Byrd...
...LINDA L. BYRD...
...with Minnesota's liberal Senator Hubert Humphrey, who demanded an immediate $5 billion slash in taxes. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon opposed any such remedy on the theory that it would interfere with the broad tax-reform program that the Administration has promised for later. Testifying before Virginian Harry Byrd's Senate Finance Committee. Dillon made this decision seem unshakably firm. Asked Byrd: "As the chair understands it, you have no immediate intention of recommending a tax reduction at this session [of Congress]?" Replied Dillon: "None whatsoever." But the policy was not really that solid. Dillon assumed that...
...geological laboratory was getting regular messages from Admiral Byrd in Little America those days, but the focal point of interest in world affairs was Germany rather than Antarctica. Incidents involving Ernst Hanfstaengl '09, the Nazi government's foreign press secretary, brought students closer to the oppressive realities of the times. Hanfstaengl was chosen a class marshal for his 25th reunion, but he himself declined to serve after protest came from many quarters. Near the end of the year he again embarrassed Harvard, by offering a $1000 scholarship for a College student to use at a German university. The Corporation turned...
That being the case, Byrd is determined that his committee will study the tax bill hard-and slowly. He recently insisted that the entire 254-page bill be read twice aloud to the committee. But even the New Frontiersmen admit that Harry Byrd, 74, is playing well within the rules. Last month Byrd could easily have got a committee vote against the proposed withholding tax. "He could have ruined us," says a White House official. "But he didn't. Why not? Because to do it then would have been to force a vote after only the most nominal sort...