Word: birches
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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...
...only had the GOP ousted the bulk of the Senate's liberal old guard--headed by the likes of Sens. George S. McGovern (D-S.D.), Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), and Frank Church (D-Idaho)--but it had also gained a majority in the house (53-47) for the first time since...
...liberal Democratic leaders, including Sen. Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), Sen. Frank Church (D-Idaho) and Sen. Warren G. Magnuson (D-Wash.)--who head the Senate Intelligence, Foreign Relations and Appropriations committees, respectively--all fell to GOP challengers...
...spreading sails as he seeks the presidency; these are the same winds that blew across America's prairies this winter, spring and summer. The gale force conservative bluster was supposed to blow away liberal senators Frank Church of Idaho, George McGovern of South Dakota, John Culver of Iowa and Birch Bayh of Indiana like so many mobile homes in the path of a tornado. But now it seems that the eye of the storm might, just might, have passed and that the winds of the hurricane have turned back upon themselves...
More than a year ago, conservative strategists gathered in some D.C. war room and began sticking pins in maps. They aimed at Church--their chief target, for he was floor manager for the Panama Canal "giveaway." They stuck a pin in Indiana, where they said Birch Bayh had voted consistently to cut national defense. Iowa's John Culver made it to the list, for his fellow Iowa liberal, Dick Clark, has proven vulnerable in 1978. And George McGovern, it almost went without saying, got a pin too, if for no better reason than the memory of his radlib...