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  • was up here a while I needed a job, applied with him and got one in 1953 and was with him until he died. I expect Kerr and maybe Johnson and Harry Byrd of Virginia had the least turnover in the top people of the staffs of anybody up there. We never had
  • and the Medicare bill; Kerr's involvement in hiring an assistant for Jim Webb of NASA; the Bricker Amendment; Harry Byrd's work on the Finance Committee; Kerr's meeting with the head of DuPont, Crawford Greenewalt; Kerr's opinions on Social Security and Medicare
  • to him. He agreed with the strategy that we should walk off that subcommittee. Which we did, all three of us. And that was the beginning, too, of--I remember Senator Harry Byrd, Sr. getting up in the Senate, attacking McCarthy that day for appointing