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...CONGRESS The Elephant Hunt Drawing a bead on Virginia's apple-cheeked Harry Byrd, the Senate's economizer extraordinary, is almost as adventurous an undertaking as stalking a bull elephant with an arquebus. But Minnesota's bumptious Freshman Hubert Humphrey was never one to heed the admonitions of his elders. He sighted on Harry Byrd's jaw-cracking Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures. Far from serving as a useful check on government spending, blared Humphrey, the Byrd committee might better be described as "the nonessential committee on nonessential expenditures...
...Harry Byrd was not on the Senate floor when Freshman Humphrey first discharged his matchlock. But last week Byrd planted himself firmly behind his desk, flipped open a manuscript on the lectern before him and fixed the upstart with a cold, stern eye. After glancing through the Congressional Record, he began, he had found at least nine major misstatements in Humphrey's 2,000-word accusation. He would proceed forthwith to set the Senate straight on the facts...
Atomic Superlatives. From both sides of the aisle, Senators crowded in to watch the fun as Byrd took off after his accuser, item by item. Humphrey had called his committee "the No. i example of waste and extravagance," snorted Byrd. That was not only a misstatement; "even in this atomic era of superlatives, it must go down as a super-exaggeration." In the past nine years the committee had spent only $127,000. In return, it had pushed through savings of more than $2.4 billion...
Overall Objective. Looking over the domestic scene, Truman insisted that he hates deficit spending as much as Harry Byrd, but that the present red-ink budget is only temporary. Besides, there wouldn't be any deficit spending if the Republican Congress had not cut income taxes. His overall objective was steadily to expand the economy to absorb the million and a half young people who come into it annually and such expansion would in itself wipe out the deficit by increasing national income. This cannot be done without the measures outlined in the Fair Deal...
...President's wife, she replied frankly: "What American woman wouldn't want her husband to be President?" The Savannah (Go.) Morning News went her one better, proposed a national conservative coalition ticket with Eisenhower as presidential candidate and Virginia's economy-minded Democrat, Senator Harry F. Byrd, as his running mate. Kansas' new interim Senator Harry Darby, a Republican, said that Ike was highly regarded in his home state of Kansas, but "any potential candidate might find himself in bad shape if he waited too long to declare himself." And in Key West, Fla., where...