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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...
...wrong, and that he neither gained nor lost strength but got the vote he was going to get all along. But that's show business-and contemporary politicians, being showmen, are experts at poor mouthing their chances and minimizing their reverses. So you have the spectacle of Birch Bayh insisting on how well he did by finishing third...
...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...