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...Benson resents crowds of any sort, noise of any sort--with the irascibility of a crabby old man. At his age, of course, one shouldn't expect other than this, but somehow one does wish he were kinder to tourists, to modern arrangement of pictures in the Uffiizi, to the motorcycles in Ravenna. These, after all, are the facts of life for modern Italy. Berenson seems to resent them for purely egocentric reasons: because they distract his own concentration, or in some way jibe with his memories of the past...
Nixon, claims Schlesinger, is an "other-directed" personality, a "chameleon" with no concrete political philosophy of his own. And his political strength lies precisely in his lack of viewpoint. As examples, Schlesinger cites Nixon's attitudes toward McCarthy, "eggheads," Benson, and "growthmanship...
Since Government got the farmer into difficulty, said he, "Government should unhesitatingly, as a matter of obligation, help indemnify him to get him out." Government programs had been "too timid and too little" up to now he said, not mentioning either the Eisenhower Administration or Agriculture Secretary Ezra T. Benson by name.* Present surpluses, said Nixon, should be disposed of; future surpluses should never be allowed to accumulate. And at the 21st annual plowing contest in Guthrie Center, Nixon discussed the four parts of "Operation Consume," his plan for dealing with the surplus part of the problem. It calls...
...Lyndon Johnson was ready to fill any gaps: Nixon, he said, had defended Benson's farm program "for seven years and seven months, but now wants the voters to believe for the next 60 days that he favors the Democratic approach on the surplus problem...
...Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, clearly Dick Nixon's idea of a political albatross, stubbornly refused to go away. In Salt Lake City, Benson-once a Rockefeller partisan-said he was strongly for Nixon as "the candidate who will be best for America." Talk of Nixon repudiating him, said Benson, was "crazy...