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...wore on, Douglas tried to knock out $200 million for flood control on the lower Mississippi River, $100 million of projects in the Ohio River Basin, $89 million for the Arkansas River Basin. Except for Delaware's John Williams and Virginia's inveterate economizer, Harry Byrd, he had almost no support. Most of his colleagues sat, exasperated...
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Humphrey, continued Byrd, had misquoted and misused committee figures to prove his case. He had overlooked some elementary facts and twisted others out of shape. Then Byrd hit his peroration. Humphrey had tried to dismiss the committee as just a "publicity medium," he snapped. "As the Senator from Minnesota is a publicity expert himself, his statement could be regarded as a compliment...
...Political Zombie. Sitting in his back row seat, scribbling notes furiously, hapless Hubert Humphrey tried vainly to get the floor. But Byrd's old friends of both parties jumped in to help cut the freshman down to size. "I know of no more valuable committee that has functioned in this body since I have been a member," declared Georgia's veteran Walter George. "Amazing and reckless charges," said Mississippi's John Stennis. Michigan's Republican Homer Ferguson pointed out that Byrd's committee was so respected by the G.O.P. that Byrd had been allowed...
When Humphrey got up to speak, the Senate elders, one by one, led by Harry Byrd himself, quit the floor. -Angered by the pointed snub, Humphrey shouted defiantly: "The shrinking violet has not been clipped." He still thought that the Byrd committee was "a sort of political zombie," that it claimed credit for economies that the Administration had accomplished on its own hook. Cried Humphrey: "I would not say that was patting oneself on the back. I would say that is just twisting oneself up like a pretzel and spinning and announcing to the world the greatness...