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Considering the freshmen's political bias, it is natural that their first impression of the Senate would not be of its power, or of its place in the order of things, but of its people. And Birch Bayh's impression was typical: "it's been wonderful." Besides the oath book ceremony, there are luncheons given by the leadership, and the little gestures that any politician appreciates. Daniel Inouye found his reception "extremely good, embarrassingly good. The senior members go out of their way to be nice to you; they even took me around to the masseur...
Kennedy seemed to summarize the feelings of most freshmen when he remarked "Seniority is the established rule of the Senate-now, can you call it Democracy?" Bayh went along with Kennedy: "Insofar as it reflects experience on the scene, and additional knowledge, it is to the good. A great majority of the time, it would be a great asset." But "as speaker of the Indian House of Representatives, I had too much authority. There is the danger that so far as it permits someone who is no longer in complete control of his faculties to have power...
...last name is Bayh...
...last two weeks of the campaign. Hoosiers heard little else on radio and television stations. That campaign song was the climactic effort by Democrat Birch Bayh, 34, to unseat three-term Republican Senator Homer Capehart, 65. And unseated Homer was. But it was less because of Bayh's jumpy theme-tune than because Capehart looked, talked and acted like an old codger...
...Bayh, he was raised on an Indiana farm, took a degree in agriculture at Purdue, won election to the state house of representatives at 25. He became minority leader in 1957 and speaker in 1959, meanwhile earned a law degree at Indiana University. He started his hard campaign for the Senate a full year ago. Says Bayh: "I feel the average voter is impressed by a fellow who's out there just working his tail off." Homer Capehart. who just happened to be a responsible, hard-working Senator, would have expressed the same sentiment-but in the words...