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  • for them and what they might ask him to do in the future. He had great per- sonal contact with the senators and great sense of evaluation, which made it possible for him, for example, to pass the tax cut bill, because he was close to Harry Byrd. M
  • Humphrey in that West Virginia primary? L: I don't know if he did or not. I would not be surprised that he did. I have a funny feeling that he did through Bobby Byrd, too. G: There is a story that he contributed considerable money to Humphrey's support
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Lasker -- I -- 9 And they came. They were [Alan] Bible, [Gale] McGee and--I think it was [Robert] Byrd of West Virginia. They were new in 1960. F
  • that the Istop Kennedy' people could do him, fine. In West Virginia we had such obvious Istop Kennedy' people as that bigot Robert Byrd helping us. M: Helping in quotation marks almost there. R: "Helping," yes. But his sole motivation was to stop Kennedy
  • ://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Barrow -- I -- 28 Medicare!" Beat him by one vote--that was [Senator] Byrd