Robert Byrd Quotes
Without economic security, we cannot have national security.
Robert Byrd, 1917-2010, U. S. Congressman & U. S. Senator (Democrat, WV), Senate Majority & Minority Leader, Quoted in The Washington Post, August 4, 1988
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The big priorities will focus on the security and economic side because they really go hand in hand.
This quotation Illustrates a conflation of American national security and economics.
Prince de Benévant. Alexander Hamilton had devised a system of bonds to assume the revolutionary war debt, and, despite the objection of many other politicians like Jefferson, assumed a national debt. But the Untied States was growing and Hamilton’s bonds were so well implemented, that even the sophisticated leaders of Europe were openly admitting that U. S. Bonds were excellent investments and Europeans and other foreigners have been buying American debt ever since.
This was a fundamental principle of the Republican party in the middle of the 20th century. However, by the end of that century, Republican doctrine, with the support of the Military-Industrial Complex {641114}, had changed to place defense spending as the highest priority—so much so that the huge deficits created by the massive defense spending weakened the financial solvency that Eisenhower had warned that was more fundamental.
Robert Carlyle Byrd was an American politician who served as a United States Senator from West Virginia for over 51 years, from 1959 until his death in 2010. A member of the Democratic Party, Byrd also served as a U.S. Representative for six years, from 1953 until 1959. He remains the longest-serving U.S. Senator in history; he was the longest-serving member in the history of the United States Congress until surpassed by Representative John Dingell of Michigan. He was the last remaining member of the U.S. Senate to have served during the presidency of Dwight Eisenhower, and he was the last remaining member of Congress to have served during the presidency of Harry S. Truman. Byrd is also the only West Virginian to have served in both chambers of the state legislature and both chambers of Congress.
