That was back when Senior Bayh Birch's wife Marvella was still alive, before her death from cancer. Though Birch served only as Senator and never as governor, she was the state's First Lady in every sense of the term.
History does not exactly echo, but sometimes, it rhymes. A year or so ago when Hillary first came nosing around attempting to pressgang Evan into the slot as her VP, he begged off noting his wife's medical problems. It seems that situation has changed.
Iirc. Wife has an alcohol problem. DC was not conducive to healing it.