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...crowds and sniping away at the Republicans who opposed his foreign policy ("They can't see beyond their noses"). At Lincoln, Neb., in the heart of the farm belt, he got around to the first of nine formal speeches of the tour. Opposition to the Administration's Brannan Plan, said the President, was "the same kind of mudslinging, name-calling opposition that you hear every time we bring up a new proposal for the benefit of the people...
...beneficiaries were happy about price supports. The American Butter Institute, representing producers of 30-40% of the U.S. butter supply, asked Agriculture Secretary Charles Brannan to cut support prices by about 3? a pound to the legal premium. "The present level of support prices," said the institute, "discourages consumption...
...also urged expansion of social-security coverage and benefits, further rural electrification, federal aid to states for "subsistence, shelter and medical care." It urged freer world trade but it insisted that U.S. industry and farmers be protected from the products of "underpaid foreign labor." It stoutly opposed the Brannan Plan but it promised the farmer "fair" support prices...
...Department of Agriculture had 25 million bushels of hot potatoes on its hands. It had already, at a total cost of $35 million, given away all it could - to deserving institutions, school-lunch programs and overseas relief. To give the rest away, complained Agriculture Secretary Charles F. Brannan dolorously, would cost the Government another $15 million...
Putting the problem to Congress, Char lie Brannan was too politic to remind its members of what they already knew too well: the potato glut was its baby. The Senate Agriculture Committee handed it back to Brannan, who decided to save the $15 million and dump the spuds...