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...Midwest the snigger of the week was about the new "Benson tractor"-built without a seat, to accommodate farmers who have lost their pants. In Washington Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson had little time for worrying about such Farm Belt jeers: he had on his hands an urgent, deadly serious piece of business with members of the Senate Agriculture Committee...
...political science graduate of Brigham Young University, and now a field representative of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee, Reed Benson was serving as the elder Benson's aide. His assignment covered a wide range of duties. Asked what he did when someone threw a hot political question at his father, Reed said: "I probably just say a good little prayer for him and know everything will come out all right...
...Hassle over Pork. As Ezra Benson moved across the U.S., such assistance was needed. In Chicago he trudged through the manure in the stockyards, spotted and sold (to a livestock commission buyer) a choice lot of hogs at $15.25 a hundredweight, 25? above the day's previous high. Given a stockman's cane as a souvenir of his feat, Benson later referred to the cane as a reminder that hogs should never "go below that price again." But before the week was out, the top for hogs in Chicago had slipped...
Democratic Presidential Candidate Estes Kefauver, the greatest poser for trick pictures since Laocoön, cried out in the U.S. Senate that Benson's appearance in the stockyards was "huckstering" and a "childish political episode...
Despite the political clamor for his resignation, Benson was still up to his old determination to tell people what he thought they should hear, whether they wanted to hear it or not. At a meeting of the National Swine Industry Committee in Chicago, he read a lecture to the processors and distributors of meat products. Said he: "I have been extremely concerned in recent months that prices to farmers were going down while marketing margins were going up. In other words, low hog prices were not fully reflected in pork values to the consumer ... I am fully aware that total...