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  • ://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
  • . 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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