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Problems of the political future were still very much on Ike's mind when he landed in Virginia's Shenandoah Valley. There his host was conservative Demo cratic Senator Harry Byrd, who has stubbornly refused to endorse his party's ticket, and all but urged his supporters to vote for Nixon and Lodge. With Byrd by his side, the President looked in on the drab little home at Mount Sidney where his mother was born, attended the annual luncheon of the Woodrow Wilson Birth place Foundation in nearby Staunton. (Notably absent was President Wilson's widow...
Virginia (12): Patriarch Harry Byrd has spoken no word for Kennedy, last week posed smilingly for pictures with speech-making Republican Eisenhower. Other state politicos are working hard for Kennedy, but it is still NIXON...
...with a Blast. Johnson found the political weather cool in Virginia's Byrd-land (where Senator Byrd is the only eminent Southern Democratic holdout), but it warmed almost immediately when the L.B.J. Special rolled into the Carolinas. At every whistle stop, politicians of every variety, from Senators to sheriffs, from South Carolina's Governor Ernest Rollings to Florida's Representative Bob ("He-Coon") Sikes, clambered happily aboard. There they were warmly and methodically greeted by L.B.J. and Lady Bird, photographed, endorsed, introduced, and ushered off with a blast of The Yellow Rose of Texas...
With Emancipation, the Negro was free to do as he pleased in America; but the hoped-for change in status did not come about. In effect, as the New York Post remarked about Senator Byrd's practice of shipping in West Indies Negroes to work in his Southern orchards at less than the U.S. minimum wage, the white man no longer owned his slaves; he rented them. Some individual Negoes were able to earn positions of esteem in the Negro community and even gained respect in the white community, insofar as they became the liasons and chief deferrers...
...heating, which in most cases must be delivered by air. The final answer to this problem is the small nuclear reactor to generate electricity and keep the buildings warm. Preparations will be made this season for the installation of the first of these reactors at McMurdo Sound. Eventually both Byrd Station and the South Pole base will also go nuclear...