Word: birching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...painful process of winnowing out the candidates. Whatever their rating behind the victorious Carter, the Democrats sought solace, often unrealistically, in the figures. Arizona Congressman Morris "Mo" Udall, who finished second with a respectable 24%, had the best case to make. But the liberal candidates who trailed him, including Birch Bayh (16%), Fred Harris (11%) and Sargent Shriver (9%), had to be jolted by the news from New Hampshire. Their rhetoric and the realities...
Unlike the liberals, Carter has not called for curbing the independence of the Federal Reserve Board, though he mildly complains about its tight money policies of the recent past. He favors more vigorous antitrust action but, in contrast to Birch Bayh, Mo Udall and Fred Harris, he does not call for totally breaking up the big oil companies. In his opinion, they should be forced to sell off their coal and uranium production operations, and to choose between being in either the "retail" (gas stations) or "wholesale" (exploration, drilling and refining) end of the business...
...About Birch Bayh there is one lesson to be learned: he was another tragic victim--as Stuart Symington was in 1960--of the Edmund Muskie syndrome; acceptable to all, the first and rabid choice of almost none (excepting the Harvard people who worked...
...really proud of what we did and I will wear my Birch Bayh button until November," Mark Roosevelt '77 said, reacting to the announcement of Sen. Bayh (D-Ind) that he is "suspending" his campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination...
...Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) an original supporter of the bill who withdrew out of public pressure, has said that with a few amendments S-1 could be workable. Spokesmen for the American Civil Liberties Union claim that only with 2600 amendments would the bill be palatable. S-1 is so packed with repressive measures that it should not even be debated on the senate floor. The bill should be scrapped immediately and a new crime commission established to draw up a just criminal code...