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Just Me. His long-anticipated announcement was pure Bayh: a mixture of hokum and humility. Followed by two busloads of staff and press, he traveled around Indiana. The first stop was the family farm in Shirkieville (pop. 40). As he gazed over his 340 acres, Bayh brooded: "I think it's fair to say that I have really felt closer to my God right out here in these fields, doing the kinds of things most of us enjoy doing." He even confided that he did not have a "burning desire" to be President. The next stop, at Indianapolis, brought...
Mesmerized by the spirited campaigner with his crooked smile and dimpled chin, people sometimes forget what Bayh has said or that he has not said much of anything. He often ends his campaign speeches with the following...
...Bayh is not embarrassed by his banalities. As he told TIME Correspondent Stanley Cloud last week, "That's just me. I can't help it." When he appeared at a recent candidates' forum in Minneapolis, a woman complained: "He reminds me of Johnny Carson discussing the issues." But Bayh gives his all to everyone he meets. Nobody high or low, friendly or hostile, is spared some gesture of affection-a slap on the back maybe, a poke in the ribs, a jab to the shoulder-as if Bayh were still a Golden Gloves light-heavyweight boxing champion...
...people forget where his roots are. Born in Terre Haute, he spent part of his childhood in Washington, D.C., where his father was a director of physical education in the school system. At 12, when his mother died and his father went overseas in World War II, Bayh and his sister Mary Alice moved to their grandparents' farm in Shirkieville. In high school Bayh became a champion 4-H Club tomato grower and decided to study agriculture at Purdue. After two years in the Army, he returned to graduate in 1951. Then he settled down on the farm...
...Marvella's urging, Bayh ran for the state house of representatives and won. While serving, he earned a law degree from Indiana University. At 30 he became speaker of the house. In 1962. at age 34, he challenged Republican Senator Homer Capehart. The incumbent was not expected to have much trouble defeating Bayh, whose name many people did not even know how to pronounce (it is buy). He soon set them straight with a radio and TV jingle: "Hey look him over/ He's your kind of guy./ His first name is Birch/ His last name is Bayh...