One man with this surname demanded that the federal budget for 1965 be under $100 billion as a condition for allowing the Kennedy/Johnson administration's income tax cuts to be voted through his Finan
One man with this surname demanded that the federal budget for 1965 be under $100 billion as a condition for allowing the Kennedy/Johnson administration's income tax cuts to be voted through his Finance committee without amendment. A different senator by this name failed to deliver his crucial home state to Hubert Humphrey in the 1960 Democratic primary, which derailed that senator's strategy of using the Protestant Humphrey to knock off John Kennedy in favor of Lyndon Johnson. Both senators supported the southern manifesto, and the former advocated "Massive Resistance" to integration. The latter became infamous for the pork-barrel spending available to the Chairman of the Appropriations Committee. For 10 points, what is this surname shared by numerous Virginian and West Virginian senators?
One man with this surname demanded that the federal budget for 1965 be under $100 billion as a condition for allowing the Kennedy/Johnson administration's income tax cuts to be voted through his Finance committee without amendment.
{Byrd}