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  • the special train rolls across Virginia, several members of the Byrd family are expected to grace the back platform during the· Fint Lady"s appearances. Byrd Kinfolk Are Expected to be There Not neces~arily D'emocratic Sen. Ha1Ty F. Byrd-who ran out
  • Lady Bird meets with Bess Abell, Liz Carpenter & Angier Biddle Duke about upcoming state visits and entertainment; meeting with Mr. Boudin and Mr. West about drapes for East Room; The Elms; concert by Charlie Byrd for children of Congressional
  • 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
  • . Then almost invariably I would talk to the minority leaders or General Persons, who was General Eisenhower's chief of congressional liaison. So, yes, I talked to Senator Johnson. I talked to Senator Byrd because Senator Byrd was the ranking Democrat
  • them. She drove over those muddy red clay roads, and sometimes, when there would be a real rainy spell for a week, she would stay with some friends in Marshall, one of them being Helen Byrd, the Episcopal rector's daughter. She stayed at the rectory
  • will evening. reside at the (President and Mrs. Park Allen Byrd House.) MONDAY,MAY 17 -- -- 9:25 a.m. Departure 9:30 a.m. Arrival 9: 35 a.m. EST Departure from the at the Allen Byrd House. Williamsburg from Williamsburg at the Ellipse
  • went to West Lobby on the porc h for pres s coverage) To the Blue Room for Senatoria l briefing The Vice President ^ Secretary McNamara Senator Daniel B Brewster Senator Robert C. Byrd C . Secretary Rus k Hon Lloyd Hand Senator Howard W. Cannon Senator
  • and Admiral Dick Byrd, who had been his aide when he was Vice President. Also, that was immediately prior to the Israeli-U.A.R. confrontation, and, as a matter of fact, Prime Minister Wilson was in the White House at the time, LBJ Presidential Library http
  • , the Desegregation Bill, and the economy, the issue of the anti-inflation tax is all on the front page. G: New York Times, yes. C: In any case, as you might expect, the South not liking them, and the North. . . . Here's Bob Byrd fighting the guidelines. It's
  • . at Williamsburg. Private evening. (President and Hrs. will reside at the Allen Byrd House.) MONDAY,M ---AY17 9:25 a.m. Departure 9: 30 a.m. Arrival from the Allen at the Park Byrd House. Williamsburg Inn Golf Course. a.m. EST Departure 11:35 a. m
  • Senator Senator Mansfield Dirksen Robert Byrd Hayden Kuchel Russell Smathers Williams Young Speaker McCormack Representative Ford Representative Boggs Representative Bow Representative Byrnes Representative Laird The P resident Opened meeting by saying
  • Mike Mansfield Russell Long Robert Byrd John McCormack Carl Albert Cong. Hale Boggs PMG Lawrence O'Brien Barefoot Sanders Hon. Mike Manatos Joseph Califano Mike Manatos memo of gist (sent to DT) indicates the following: j The President began
  • in law practice in 1964, and it was while I was campaigning, in a sense, for my father, who was running for hi 5 second term. I campai gned, too, for the Johnson-Humphrey ti cket, and sang Saine duets with Lynda Byrd. Arnold, Fortas, and Porter. I
  • • ., Atla • ., Ga. BUTLER.,Broadus., Wash., n.c. BYRD.,Willis, Jefferson City, Mo. MORTON,James., W., Cumberland., Md. CERTAINE.,Jeremiah, Cambridge., Mass. MURRAY,Peter M• ., NYC., COOKE,Lloyd, Chge. Ill. MILLER., I. H., Jra, Greensboro., N. Car. MARSF.ftLL
  • Lady Bird's trip to New York for clothes fitting; lunch with Billie and Wendy; Tax Bill passed and signing ceremony; LBJ's speech and praise for Sen. Byrd; LBJ & Lady Bird to Mrs. Kennedy's house to present 4 signing pens; presentation of tray
  • about not running for re-election; tea with friends; visit with Johnson daughters; story about Yuki; Johnsons meet King and Queen for State Dinner; exchange of state gifts; exchange of toasts; entertainment is Charlie Byrd; Lyn Nugent
  • 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
  • have been that. G: Why was he such an effective majority leader? M: Well, because he just paid attention to every little thing. a lot of what [Robert] Byrd's doing now. to people. He was very accommodating He put a lot of IOUs in the bank and when
  • of Florida approving Byrd without t he Pr es i dent's nalile being on . _.~-:..~-:-~---- . Page 2 - Hon . c . E. Marsh 1- 24-44 the ticket in May; got a unit rule adopted so that two- thirds of the Florida delegation at the convention would bind
  • the gas boom in northwestern New Mexico, Colorado and Utah. Since then have been working in Texas and the Arkansas Valley area of northwestern Arkansas, where we are now drill­ ing a wildcat. In the interim have releived myself of the great Harold Byrd, he
  • d his two d a u g h t e r - i n - l a w s , H elen (M rs . R ic h a rd Byrd) and G re tc h en (M rs. H a r r y B yrd, J r . ) b e fo re I got to h i m . H e le n sounded e a g e r and i n t e r e s t e d and said she would phone m e back. G r e t
  • : marshals, customs collectors and Sarah Hughes. Dinner at the Thornberrys. 8/11 10:20 meeting at RFK’s office with RFK, Yarborough, Clark. Attends funeral of Paul Johnson at 11 a.m., lunches with Wesley West, Baker, Dodd, Bible, Smathers, Robert Byrd
  • ? J: It required appropriations. It may have required legislation, but I think we had enough legislative authority if we could get the appropriation for such a development. Senator [Robert] Byrd of West Virginia was bitterly opposed because he
  • ,~ PR 109 3 - 16 (Continued) Private evening. (President and Mrs. Park will reside at the Allen Byrd House.) MONDAY,MAY17 -- -- 9:25 a.m. Departure 9:30 a.m. Arrival from the Allen Byrd House. at the Williamsburg from Williamsburg Inn Golf
  • in the spring of 1967, after the freeze had been on for four or five months, a delegation from the Congress called on the President. These were senior members from--I've forgotten just what the makeup was, but I know that two of them were Randolph and Byrd
  • . Working your way around those personal imperatives can require a good deal of personal persuasion. He was very good at it. the kind of thing that I think Bobby Byrd is doing now. It's The way he got the Senate leadership job, is by having so many
  • ://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
  • and Speaker McCormack, Hale Boggs,[Carl] Albert, also Byrd [W .Va .], the leadership generally . So as a result, they would have this resume . I suspect that they didn't read it as religiously as the President did . Another thing that happened
  • . came unable to speak the language of their new land, are not among tho e bent on prop rty de tructlon. • On July 17, Sen. Robert Byrd of West Vlr in• . ia, who knew poverty as a youth in the coal • fields, expres ed .this admirably. He said: "Dis
  • vicepreaide.nte de clonal de Citlot aon rrlatinmrn­ los Ellado,. Unlt.loa de Amtrlca. te pocos, pero qu 1 Joe que 1 ,. .,ftoro Lad,- Byrd do John,on, l•n nti• roclblendo tultun , •l,116 uta maftana la Eacuolo • oducocl6n. rlOftal de Clt100 7 el bo1plt1I de for 1u
  • Lady Bird tours 10th District Beautification projects; press; first, Lockhart courthouse; several people from LBJ's early years; Lady Bird visits with former roommate, Helen Byrd Falley; to Praha & tour of St. Mary's Church; fish fry, Monument Hill
  • with one ot the boya , a aoa ot ~ Senator Rarr1 B. Byrd ot Virginia. Boulocne to A clrive 1a th• lovely Bois de ioh Th01S1aa Jettereon like4 to oome when he waa our Aa• ltusa4or 1a Paria. Had some florid& Ola to dinner. ADWA& JUJlJ who oame t,o see