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...Senator Birch Bayh (D-Ind.) told a Business School audience yesterday, "I have a lot of reasons to want to dump Richard Nixon, but our immediate policy need is to try to persuade the administration to end the Vietnam...
...verdict before the Daniel letter was made public, though his mail has been running solidly pro-Calley. Later, Maine's Edmund Muskie said that Nixon appeared to be prejudging the appeal; George McGovern of South Dakota chided Nixon for seeming to give in to public pressure. Birch Bayh of Indiana said that the President should "keep his mouth shut until the final review and then decide whether justice was served...
...begin his first telephone conversation of each week with a hearty "F- J. Edgar Hoover." To the startled listener on the other end of the line, he explained: "Just clearing the lines." During the debate over G. Harrold Carswell's nomination to the Supreme Court, Indiana Senator Birch Bayh became so disturbed over an inexplicable strategy and information leak that he called in an expert to examine his office for listening devices. The expert "swept" Bayh's office-the same suite occupied by Richard Nixon when he was a Senator-with a detector and picked up blips from...
...support- the middle class. But the "special relevance" sought by Barringer could backfire on the poverty program. Far from making welfare more acceptable to suburban whites, the new migration could make it just more repugnant. The political issue would become not poverty but the policy question posed by David Birch: to what extent will state government encourage or discourage the dispersal of the poor through policies on housing, transportation, and education? State and local government might act to keep the poor from crossing local boundaries with a much different set of laws than liberal welfare measures...
What drew the national press here today, however, was not the first significant anti-war rally in 1971, but the presence of two Democratic Senators- Edmund F. Muskie of Maine and Birch Bayh of Indiana- who are seeking their party's presidential nomination and the right to oppose Richard M. Nixon in November...