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...advocate, Wisconsin's Republican Alexander Wiley, observed: "This matter of foreign aid will have to be resold to the American people." Oregon's Wayne Morse put it more bluntly: "I don't think the American economy can stand this program." And Vermont's Republican George Aiken was downright unkind: "I see no sign that they [State Department officials] are particularly qualified to handle huge sums of money. In fact, I would say they are pretty thoroughly demoralized down at State right...
...This bill does not have a snowball's chance in hell," wailed a House Democratic leader. Echoed Vermont's George Aiken, senior Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee: "If the Administration persists on this plan, there will be no bill this year." Work was still going on at the committee level in Congress last week, but Democrats and Republicans in both branches of Congress were already predicting a smashing defeat for one of President Kennedy's major items of legislation: a costly, catchall farm bill...
...rather complicated." sniffed Louisiana's Allen Ellender, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. "A do-it-yourself kit for every farm commodity." hooted Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois: the executive branch "could completely divest itself of all responsibility." Argued Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken: "If farm groups can write their own tickets, some will ask: Why not let labor or industrial groups do the same thing?" Moving Again. The President's farm message was of a piece with other bits of farm policy that had slipped by all but unnoticed in the crowded...
...verse collections later, Jesse Stuart, now at 53 having left his Kentucky farm to teach for a year at the American University at Cairo, received the $5,000 award of the Academy of American Poets. Among his prestigious predecessors: E. E. Cummings, Robert Frost, William Carlos Williams, Conrad Aiken...
...reaction to the release of Olmstead and McKone was overwhelmingly enthusiastic. But a few warning voices were raised. Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken charged that Khrushchev was merely "playing power politics." Cried New York's Republican Senator Jacob Javits: "There is no thaw in the cold war, and this doesn't change anything on critical matters like Berlin, Laos or the Congo...