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...opponents. The press, awakened to this event perhaps by Carter himself, proclaimed the Georgian's Iowa results a surprising victory, and a bandwagon started rolling. Actually, Carter did not win the Iowa caucuses four years ago at all: "Uncommitted" did. Carter got 29.1% of the delegates, Senator Birch Bayh 11.4%, former Senator Fred Harris 9%, Congressman Morris Udall 5.8%, and the remaining vote was scattered among also-rans. No matter. By the time of the National Convention in July, Carter uncommitteds had sorted themselves out and he had 25 of the state's 47 delegates...
...friends of consumer protection such as Ted Kennedy, Birch Bayh and George McGovern are largely in hiding or otherwise engaged running for election...
There is a real danger that anti-abortion legislation could become increasingly more restrictive. It already discriminates against women in lower economic brackets. The power of the pro-life people should not be underestimated: they have targeted 12 Congressmen for defeat in 1980, among them Morris Udall and Birch Bayh. We need to inform our politicians of their pro-choice constituency and reverse the further tightening of the over-restrictive and discriminatory legislation...
Another troubling issue seemed to be clearing up last week when Intelligence Committee Chairman Birch Bayh and Vice Chairman Barry Goldwater asserted that the U.S. possesses the "technical means" to monitor Soviet compliance with the treaty. The committee's final report was not an absolute assurance that verification problems have been overcome, and Ohio's Democratic Senator John Glenn was still deeply troubled by that issue. But the report helped to reduce fears that the loss of Iranian listening posts and other U.S. intelligence shortcomings would significantly impair surveillance of Soviet weaponry. Said one Democratic Senator: "This...
...into politics after organizing a 1938 "cornfield convention" of 20,000 Republicans. As Senator, he supported farm subsidies and helped establish the Small Business Administration. An enthusiastic McCarthyite, Capehart staked his 1962 senatorial campaign on a tough anti-Cuba stand ("invade or blockade") and lost narrowly to young Birch Bayh when President Kennedy's embargo of Cuba took away his thunder...