Word: culver
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...William Gordy Pierre Du Pont IV D.C. 3 Florida 17 Georgia 12 Herman Talmadge Mack Mattingly Hawaii 4 Daniel Inouye Cooper Brown Idaho 4 Frank Church Steven Symms Illinois 26 Alan J. Dixon David O'Neal Indiana 13 Birch Bayh Dan Quayle John Hillenbrand Bob Orr Iowa 8 John Culver Charles Grassley Kansas 7 John Simpson Robert Dole Kentucky 9 Wendell Ford Mary Louise Foust Louisiana 10 Russell Long (re-elected in "open" primary) Maine 4 Maryland 10 Edward Conroy Charies McC. Mathias Massachusetts 14 Michigan 21 Minnesota 10 Mississippi 7 Missouri 12 Thomas Eagleton Gene McNary Joseph P. Teasdale...
...fill Ronald Reagan's 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...
...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 run for the White House...
When Iowa's Culver played fullback for Harvard's varsity, he was known as pugnacious, a trait he's retained through his career in the world's most exclusive club. Culver should feel lucky he's never been tamed, for he's had to drawn on every political instinct in this year's battle against Republican Charles Grassley, the Moral Majority candidate in the Corn State...
Moral Majority forces began the Iowa campaign on a high note, claiming that Culver was a part of the "crowd which made legal the killing of babies, made the streets safe for criminals and rapists, and kicked God out of our schools." Hard charges to beat, but Culver has turned to the best source of all: when confronted with the Moral Majority rehetoric, he quotes Matthew 25. "Have you helped feed the hungry? Have you brought water to the thirsty?... To the extent that you've done these unto the least, you have done them unto me," Culver paraphrases...