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-- 19 To be an influence nationally, you have got to play the media. You've got to know what their problems are, their schedules. The best media user when we're talking about senators was Harry Flood Byrd from Virginia. Now here was a man
Adlai Stevenson; 1952 presidential election; Dwight Eisenhower; Harry Truman; Gene McCarthy; John Sparkman; Amon Carter; Senator Richard Russell; Kentucky Derby; LBJ’s relationship with President Eisenhower; economics

of a tax bill as opposed to the administration's. It seems that the Democrats promoted a twenty-dollar per person cut and Harry Byrd supported an administration version that was aimed more at the higher income brackets, it seems. B: Oh, I recall
Price Daniel and the Senate Judiciary Committee; Democratic Steering Committee; Drew Pearson; Commerce Committee; Senator Alben Barkley; selection of Harry Truman as 1944 vice-presidential candidate; use of Skeeter Johnston's office for lunch

picking people that there was no amount of money to buy that destroyed Joe McCarthy. That's the reason that people like Harry Byrd probably believed that there were that many communists in the S t a t e Department. It was a sad thing to say about someone

, I never will forget what Lyndon Johnson yelled out, he said, "What has Richard Nixon ever done for Culpeper, Virginia!" The press picked it up. He liked Lyndon Johnson, and we lost Virginia. Harry Byrd was for Nixon. But I had been in business

. But for some reason there were some sweetheart union contracts in some southern states [so] that there was a little heat on like Senator Harry Byrd from Virginia. believe it was the tobacco people. I Virginia probably is the biggest tobacco manufacturing

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