Word: bayh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President wanted to get his case on record before the delegates convene in New York, although there was no chance he would appear by then before the subcommittee chaired by Indiana's Birch Bayh...
...Bayh candidly admitted that members of Congress had sharply differing opinions about what should be done. "Some have already judged the guilt or innocence; some are for hanging, some want a whitewash. I think all my Republican colleagues want to skin the President. Probably some Democrats think we are going too far." But despite his desire to move quickly, Bayh urged caution. "We want to do this so neither side can say we are heating up or slowing down in order to affect the convention. We don't want to go charging out there like Keystone Cops and come...
...fundamental question, observed Senator Birch Bayh, the Indiana Democrat who chairs the Senate's special subcommittee investigating the matter, is something "the people have a right to know: Did Billy Carter, with all his shortcomings, influence the Government of the United States...
...with power to subpoena White House documents, even the revival of the old question, "What did the President know and when did he know it?"-these all had the ring of Watergate. So did the repeated anticipation of things they "forgot" to say. The vow of Indiana Democrat Birch Bayh, who will head the committee, evoked Watergate when he said: "We will pursue the truth wherever the truth may lead and let the chips fall where they may." Observed Tennessee Republican Howard Baker, one of the Watergate committee inquisitors: "I listened with an eerie feeling. Bayh said what I said...
...source said subcommittee members Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), who appears to favor registration, and Sen. Harrison Schmidt (R-N.J.), against registration, are wavering...