Word: bayh
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...Reagan Administration and knocking out of office some key Democratic stalwarts. The voters who cast their ballots for a President-elect who has pledged to reverse the tone and direction that have prevailed in Washington for almost half a century also retired such noted liberal Democratic Senators as Birch Bayh in Indiana, George McGovern in South Dakota, Frank Church in Idaho and John Culver in Iowa. Even Washington's Warren Magnuson, a fixture in the Senate since 1944 and No. 1 in seniority among all 100 Senators, went down to defeat. In the House, powerful Ways and Means Chairman...
...plan to guarantee a small income for all Americans. McGovern was beaten badly by Jim Abdnor, for whom "slaughter" means instead federally funded abortion, who promised to cut taxes instead of supporting those "too lazy to work." With Carter and McGovern went Frank Church, John Culver '54, and Birch Bayh. Here in Massachusetts, the people overwhelmingly approved a huge reduction in local taxes, despite the warnings of city and town officials that the cuts would cripple local schools, reduce the number of cops on the beat, and make driftwood of the state's poor who depend most heavily on public...
...nation's anger at President Carter, its confidence in Reagan, its unhappiness about the economy, its growing conservatism, its resurgent Republicanism. Whether few or all of these interpretations prove correct, the commentary has undoubtedly heartened many of the voters who elected Reagan, who voted Senators George McGovern and Birch Bayh out of office, who passed proposition 21/2 in Massachusetts, who elected Alfonse D'Amato to the Senate from New York. They wanted their votes to add up to a "mandate," and it looks like that's the way the nation is taking them...
Notable victims of the GOP on-slaught included the most venerable giants of the liberal old guard: Sens. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), George S. McGovern (D-S.D.), Frank Church (D-Idaho), and Reps. Al Ullman (D-Ore.) and John Brademas...
...Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), for instance, will probably take over from defeated Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) on the Intelligence Committee, while Sen. Strom Thurmond (R-S.C.) will push Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) aside on the Judiciary Committee...