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Telephone conversation # 16, sound recording, LBJ and GEORGE SMATHERS, 11/23/1963, 2:10PM (Item)

STATUS OF TAX BILL IN SENATE; EFFORTS TO ENLIST COOPERATION OF HARRY BYRD, SR.; BYRD'S CONCERNS ABOUT FEDERAL BUDGET; LBJ SAYS HE CANNOT ABANDON JFK'S PROGRAM IN ORDER TO PASS TAX BILL; SMATHERS' CONVERSATION WITH HHH ABOUT HHH AS POSSIBLE VP

Folder, "[June 11, 1968 - Leadership Breakfast]," Meeting Notes Files, Box 3 (Item)

6/11/68 TO: Marie Fehmer FROM: Barefoot Sanders Resume of Leadership Breakfast, Tuesday, June 11, 1968 'J The Leadership Breakfast today was attended by Senators Mansfield and Byrd, Speaker McCormack, Congressmen Albert and Boggs

Oral history transcript, Jack Valenti, interview 2 (II), 10/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh wanted to get my judgment of what was going on in Harris County. But mainly I think he just wanted me there, and since I had done the program this was a way of saying, "I thank you, and come on. Let's go on to the Austin
back to Washington D.C.; LBJ’s first night as President; the combined LBJ/JFK staff; Ted Sorenson; LBJ’s State of the Union address and concern over the budget; Senator Harry Byrd; getting the budget under $100 billion; task forces; Negro voting rights

Oral history transcript, Arthur Krock, interview 1 (I), 11/21/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)

. Of course, he was annoyed very much by Senator [Joseph] Clark of Pennsylvania. He also greatly admired Senator [Harry] Byrd [Sr.] of Virginia despite the fact that Byrd and he were often on opposite sides. Clark and Gore-- what he called the liberals

Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)

of them back in the cloakrooms or anything--but every one of them sitting in their seats when the vote started . He had every one of them, including Harry Byrd [D] of Virginia, and some real mavericks in the party ready to vote hold back

Oral history transcript, Juanita Roberts, interview 4 (IV), 4/6/1983, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that people would think. And he knew that if they thought that, you could depend on them to think it. and he were miles apart in thinking. Senator Byrd. G: He knew how to You know, old Harry Byrd But he had deep respect for He sure knew how he was going

Oral history transcript, Walter W. Heller, interview 1 (I), 2/20/1970, by David G. McComb (Item)

that it was driven through by giving Harry Byrd what he wanted, namely, a budget that didn't exceed a hundred billion dollars. You know, this totally artificial administrative budget figure was just a will-o-the-wisp, but he was convinced that if he gave Byrd

Oral history transcript, Robert E. Baskin, interview 1 (I), 3/16/1974, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

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

. In West Vi rginia it became very , very obvious when Senator Byrd really took off after John Kennedy that he was being spo nsored by Lyndon Johnson . Our only concern at that moment, despite \'le had our own political pr oblems, was Bobby Baker . Kennedy

Oral history transcript, Thomas G. Wicker, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1970, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)

president taking office after the death of a president had ever been before. And I think this came about after Harry Truman's bad experience with that, because it had just been more institutionalized for the [vice] president to be kept informed. F

Oral history transcript, Charles L. Schultze, interview 1 (I), 3/28/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)

to get it through was to come in with a tight budget. Now at what stage you've got to come in under a hundred was explicitly formulated by Harry Byrd and some of the other people, I don't know. But it soon became clear to the President that he couldn't

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