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There is one fact on the U.S. domestic scene that both Republican and Democratic presidential hopefuls agree upon: Ezra Taft Benson's farm program has resulted in one big mess. But where Democrats have a wide field for criticism of Administration policies, front-running Republican Richard Nixon is on a ledge: so long as he is a member of the Eisenhower team, he cannot risk a serious party split by taking out after Agriculture Secretary Benson. Last week Dick Nixon told a group of farm-state Congressmen of a politically momentous decision: he intends to cut himself off from...
...Senator Milton R. Young. Gathered for the meeting were G.O.P. wheat-state Senators, all of them unhappy about the farm message that President Eisenhower was scheduled to send to Congress that very day. The Senators had found in the advance text a lingering echo of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson's crusading spirit, and they felt that, considering Benson's unpopularity in the farm belt, a gentler tone was indicated in an election year...
...President did not insist on his own wheat program. He would, he said, "approve any constructive solution that the Congress wishes to develop," whether leading to "greater freedom or more regimentation," and whether based on market prices or parity-a wide departure from Secretary Benson's old down-with-controls, parity-must-go war cries...
...Billion in 7 Years. With its unwar-like invitation to come forward with "any constructive solution," Ike's message-the last farm message of his presidency-had a mood of resignation about it. Behind it lay a disappointing record. Ezra Benson took over as Agriculture Secretary in 1953 with high hopes of cutting back surpluses and trimming the costs of farm programs, but the total of federal funds tied up in stored farm surpluses swelled from $3 billion in 1953 to $9 billion today, and Agriculture Department expenditures soared from $2.9 billion in 1953 to $6.5 billion...
...food to "those who need it," but his own ingenuity has produced only a slogan ("food bin of freedom"). Administration insiders say that Nixon, with the President's tacit blessing, is planning to speak out with a farm program of his own, departing from Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson's rigidities enough to sidestep the massive dislike that Benson has piled up among the farmers...