Word: bayh
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert M. Solow '44, Institute Professor of Economics at MIT, drafted the statement, which the Harvard professors signed. Robert Preusser, a professor of Architecture at MIT and Steven Trachtenberg, associate vice president of Boston University, also endorsed Bayh...
...professors cited Bayh's legislative achievements and his role in the drafting of the Twenty-fifth and Twenty-sixth Amemdments to the Constitution, and the as yet unratified Equal Rights Amendment, as the reason for their endorsement...
...word last week was that Bayh was broke, had poured all he had into a confrontation with Henry Jackson in New York on April 6, and so would finish out of the money in Massachusetts. Bayh has spent $38,000 on T.V. in Boston, less than anyone else except Shriver and anti-abortion candidate Ellen McCormack, but he does have strong labor support. Whether that support together with whatever liberals he can pull out of the suburbs will be enough to overtake Udall is another matter entirely...
Jackson has used the "efficient government" line, too; all the liberal Democrats, with Harris going the farthest, share Bayh's orientation toward jobs. Bayh is especially good on women's rights--he sponsored the ERA in the Senate--and even though he personally opposes abortion, he would not legislate against it. Bayh's major claim to fame, however, is his fight against the Haynesworth and Carswell nominations to the Supreme Court. Andrew Kopkind of the Real Paper says that the real credit for defeating those nominations, however, should go to civil rights activist Marian Edelman, who put a lobbying coalition...
...Bayh's basic problem is that no one believes any longer that the presidency is the exclusive property of the Gentlemen's Club known as the U.S. Senate. He's personable, quick to answer questions, and has the brightest baby-blue eyes this side of the cradle. In a so-called "year of the non-politician," Bayh says, "I'm proud to be a politician--and I'm not against Big Government--I just want it to be more efficient...