"You damned fools are going to fix it so that you'll never even be able to beat Ave Harriman," snorted Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry Byrd to his good friend, Republican Treasury Secretary George Humphrey.
Byrd was talking about what he regards as the Administration's general political ineptness, and with special reference to its ten-year, $39 billion highway construction program. Last week ineptness led to the defeat of the Administration road bill in the Senate, which scrapped it in favor of a fiveyear, $18 billion highway program offered by Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert...
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