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Agriculture: Secretary Ezra Taft Benson (whom Richard Nixon regards as a heavy political burden) has been "forthright and courageous in trying to get enacted into legislation plans and programs that I think are correct." For Ike to regret having kept Benson on the job "would be almost a betrayal of my own views...
Vividly aware that many angry Midwestern farmers blame Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson for the 30% shrinkage in farm income during the past eight years, Richard Nixon is bent on plowing Benson under. Nixon got an assist from Benson himself, who before the Republican Convention announced his preference for Rockefeller. Fortnight ago Nixon declared that it was "essential" to break away from Benson's policies, called for "a massive program which is not concerned with budgetary costs year by year...
...harder Nixon tries to unload Benson, the more the Democrats are determined to keep the Benson burden on Nixon's back. In a speech at Monticello, Iowa last week, Lyndon Johnson reminded his audience that Nixon once called Benson "one of the best Secretaries of Agriculture in our history." Benson's "chief helpers" in aggravating the farm problem, Johnson insisted, were President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon...
...Candidate Kennedy's Hyannisport headquarters, eight Democratic Midwestern Governors and Senators, calling on their leader, dredged up a Benson statement saying that Nixon "had participated in the development" of the Administration's farm program. This moved Kennedy to declare that Nixon's "betrayal of the Benson farm program which he helped to write accurately pinpointed Mr. Nixon's lack of basic beliefs." And Election was still twelve weeks away...
...chances with the rest of the U.S., but most were still underground. One man emerged with two of his seven children; the other five and his wife insisted on staying below. Another Gospeler who left his shelter was Allen J. Harvey, 14, of Columbus, Ohio, who had come to Benson to see his girl, was assigned to a different shelter, and spent a month underground without seeing her. "We pray a lot," said Harvey. "The rest won't come up until the Lord tells them...