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...meeting was cordial. And after it was all over, President Kennedy escorted the senior Senator from Virginia out of the White House oval office. Said Kennedy good-naturedly: "Senator Byrd and I have agreed on everything." Everybody within earshot knew, of course, that the complete opposite was true...
...outer office, Harry Byrd ran into Presidential Aide Lawrence O'Brien. Only a few weeks before, O'Brien had attended one of Byrd's superb spring parties at Rosemont, his estate in Berryville, Va. Now, Byrd shook O'Brien's hand: "It was certainly nice of you to come down to my place the other day. We enjoyed having you." When Byrd left, another presidential aide incredulously asked O'Brien: "He's the guy who's against...
...sure is. Byrd is personally fond of Kennedy: "He's a very attractive person. He's got ability. No question about that." But as a pay-as-you-go Democratic conservative, Byrd is unalterably opposed to many of Kennedy's big-spending, big-Government programs. And as chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Byrd can give the Administration fits...
...Play. Byrd's committee must pass on three of the New Frontier's most important measures-medical care, foreign trade and tax revision. In similar circumstances, many committee chairmen would simply pigeonhole at least a couple of the bills in committee. But Byrd does not play that way. "You haven't agreed with me at times," Kennedy recently told Byrd, "but at least you haven't tried to bottle anything...
...Byrd does fight is by prestige and persuasion. He is opposed to the Administration's medical care program, but he is not worrying too much about it; he assumes it will be held over by the House Ways and Means Committee (TIME, June 1). He is a longtime advocate of liberalized foreign trade, but he has not yet made known his views about the particulars of the Administration bill. He is dead set against much of the President's tax-revision plan, especially the provision that would require businesses and banks to withhold a tax on dividends...