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Fourteen agencies were told by the White House to take a reef in federal public-works programs. Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan was busy looking for a way to spell "Brannan Plan" backwards. After two years of campaigning to give farmers permanent high incomes, he was under White House orders to work out a scheme for keeping food prices from going any higher...
...Stilwell Monroney (he legally changed his name to Mike when he entered politics) had earned a reputation as a sound moderate who helped put through the first real reform of Congress' rusty machinery in 25 years. Generally Fair-Dealing, he had voted for Taft-Hartley, but opposed the Brannan Plan. Though he comes from a state where oil wells are drilled even on the Capitol grounds, he voted against an oilmen's bill to raise oil price controls...
Hiring a private plane and an electric organ, Mike crosshatched the state, 'hammering at Elmer. In little towns, he would leave his car overtime by a parking meter, then identify himself and pay the fine ("Always good for a box on Page One," explained Mike). He used the "Brannan Plan" as an epithet, never let farmers forget that Thomas had sponsored it. He reminded Oklahoma's 100,000 rural voters, who get electricity from REA lines, that Thomas has opposed federal-built dams to provide cheap power. Thomas, he declared, is a "messenger" for private utilities...
Mark this-the Democrats with the Brannan Plan will win unless the Republicans come up with an understandable farm plan...
...Brannan Plan or not, as long as there were farmers' votes and politicians to covet them, nobody in the foreseeable future was going to turn the farmer wild aloose...