The meeting was cordial. And after it was all over, President Kennedy escorted the senior Senator from Virginia out of the White House oval office. Said Kennedy good-naturedly: "Senator Byrd and I have agreed on everything." Everybody within earshot knew, of course, that the complete opposite was true.
In the outer office, Harry Byrd ran into Presidential Aide Lawrence O'Brien. Only a few weeks before, O'Brien had attended one of Byrd's superb spring parties at Rosemont, his estate in Berryville, Va. Now, Byrd shook O'Brien's hand: "It was certainly nice of you to come down to my place the other day. We...
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