Onto the floor of the Senate last week walked Virginia's Democratic Senator Harry Flood Byrd. wearing a white summer suit and a small smile. Up for Senate debate and voting was a Byrd-written amendment that would have refused to the Kennedy Administration its urgently requested authority to place the U.S.'s $8.8 billion foreign aid program on a five-year basis, without having to return to Congress with a begging bowl each year. Kennedy's proposal made sense in the need to be able to match Khrushchev in long-term commitments to needy nations. But Congressmen do not lightly surrender the power of...
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