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ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781]
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Case -- I -- 21
I remember one story about old Senator Byrd, young Harry's
father
- up a little ticket of Harry Byrd for president and you for vice president. Did
that ever have your blessing?
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ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT
Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781]
More
- a conservative--and Senator Harry
Byrd Senior, and Senator George, and others., to have a prominent
conclusion about certain phases of the bill, and then he could influence
the liberals on the same bill with some other parts of it or some other
emphasis
- there. Senator Harry F. Byrd
viaS,
you know , p r e s e r v i n g hi s golden
silence and the people of Virginia were not turned on at all.
The
train pulled off a little quicker than [usual]. Johnson was still
on the platform talking and the train started
- , I never will forget what Lyndon
Johnson yelled out, he said, "What has Richard Nixon ever done for
Culpeper, Virginia!" The press picked it up.
He liked Lyndon Johnson, and we lost Virginia.
Harry Byrd was for Nixon.
But I had been in
business