Word: birching
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...some said, more as a campaign for the vice-presidency than as a quest for the highest office in the land. When it ended last week beneath the crystal chandeliers of the cavernous Senate Caucus Room, the most that could be said for the brief, improbable presidential odyssey of Birch Bayh was that it had come close to being second best. As one of the Indiana Senator's aides put it: "In some of the polls, we were everybody's second choice...
...persistent pressure to name a woman -Nixon quietly pursued his own course. He asked the American Bar Association to give its opinion of the fitness of Virginia Representative Richard H. Poff, despite rising complaints from civil rights groups and the threat of another Senate nomination fight by Democratic Senator Birch Bayh, who led the successful opposition to Nominees Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell. But just as the A.B.A. was about to make its private recommendation to the President, Poff telephoned a Nixon aide and said that he did not wish to have his name considered for the nomination...
Speakers at the October 8 rally will include five candidates for President; Senators George McGovern (D-S.D.), Birch Bayh (D-Ind.), and Muskie, and McCloskey and Rep. John Conyers (D-Mich...
...notes among other things, to have the cemetery so close, "where I can look up family dates." Yet his memory of Talcottville as "a clean and trim settlement" soon proves out of date. Some of its houses are "tumbledown" and "squalid," its citizens "ambitionless." Highways are closer and larger. Birch Society posters recommend impeaching Earl Warren. Teen-age motorcyclists ride across the lawn and drink on Wilson's porch, forcing him to scare them away "with a roar and the ancient gun that a Civil War collector in Boonville had offered to buy as a relic...
Lindsay's arrival prompted no deep fear in the camp of front-running Edmund Muskie, only a certain nervousness. If Lindsay enters the primaries, he will mainly damage the most liberal candidates-McGovern, Indiana's Birch Bayh. But, says one Muskie aide, "let's face it, he's got more charisma than anybody out there...