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...FARM PROBLEM. When Harry Truman left office, the cost of price supports and food storage was averaging $1.5 billion a year; when Dwight Eisenhower retired to private life, the cost had soared to a disastrous $9 billion annually. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson's principle of a free market for agriculture was right, but he was never able to translate it into a workable farm program. Democratic Congresses, unwilling to give Benson what he wanted and unable to produce something better of their own, share the blame that Ike was more than willing to put on them...
...when he resigned the chairmanship of the Joint Chiefs of Staff last September, took a post with one of the U.S.'s largest book publishing houses. He will be vice chairman of the board of directors of Holt, Rinehart & Winston, Inc. But retiring Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, who has had mountains of surplus corn on his mind through his eight hectic years in office, elected to linger in familiar pastures. Last week he became a director of Corn Products Co., world's largest processor of that troublesome crop...
Some retiring Eisenhower aides slipped quietly into nests back home: Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson planned to resume his Mormon duties in Utah as member of the church's governing Council of Twelve, and Secretary of the Interior Fred A. Seaton headed for Hastings, Neb. to pick up his chain of eight dailies in four states (Nebraska, Kansas, South Dakota, Wyoming), where he left them over seven years ago. Labor Secretary James P. Mitchell decided to stay in politics for a while at least, prepared to run for Governor of New Jersey...
March 10: Director of Dining Halls Ezra Taft Benson announces his One Point Program to Halt Board Riscs and Prevent Illnesses Caused by Food. Proposes that students be paid $.50 per meal for not eating...
...farm states of the Midwest and beyond reverted to Republican type-almost as though Ezra Taft Benson had never existed. In Kansas and Iowa, Nixon not only won but carried along Republican state candidates to victories over favored Democrats. In the Far West Nixon also did nicely-except in crucial California...