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Running unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate against Indiana's Republican Homer Capehart two years ago, Claude R. Wickard accused the Eisenhower Administration of basely betraying the U.S. farmer. Cried President Franklin Roosevelt's Secretary of Agriculture (1940-45): "I have before me [Candidate] Eisenhower's promises to farmers in 1952 and [President] Eisenhower's veto message of the first 1956 farm bill. Like the man on the flying trapeze, he has switched from one to the other with the greatest of ease...
During the supposedly secret conference, Charlie Halleck and Indiana's Senator Homer Capehart bellowed their defiance across the table at Indiana's Republican State Chairman Robert Matthews and Governor Harold W. Handley, who is hungrily eying the U.S. Senate seat that William E. Jenner will put up for grabs next year. Roared Senator Capehart: "We're split right down the middle. All you do is beat the brains out of the Eisenhower Administration. All you do is assure the election of a Democratic President in 1960." To State Chairman Matthews, who all but read Eisenhower Republican Halleck...
...chagrin, Majority Leader Johnson had scooped up such Democratic moderates as Massachusetts' Jack Kennedy, Ohio's Frank Lausche, Rhode Island's John Pastore, Washington's "Scoop" Jackson and Warren Magnuson, such Republicans as Maine's Margaret Chase Smith, Indiana's Homer Capehart, and West Virginia's Chappie Revercomb...
...Asked Capehart: "Who are these cherished colleagues? Am I one of them?" For answer, Kerr, deadpan, asked permission to revise his earlier statement: "I desire to have the word 'some' changed to the word 'one,' and . . . the word 'colleagues' changed to ... 'colleague.' " Undaunted, Homer Capehart unfurled the flag: "I would rather be a friend of the President of the United States without any brains than to be a friend of the Senator from Oklahoma with brains...
...attacking Ike on monetary policy, Bob Kerr was just being Bob Kerr. But the impunity with which he made the attack-Homer Capehart alone accused him of bad taste rather than inaccuracy-highlighted a new congressional attitude toward Dwight Eisenhower. On strictly domestic issues-the budget, civil rights, etc.-the President has lost, or has forsworn, his political leverage despite his personal popularity on and off Capitol Hill. Congress' discovery: six months through his second term, he need no longer be feared, can often be ignored, occasionally flouted without fear of political reprisal...