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...thank you, Mr. President, for the farm message you sent us today." Some other remarks were less ecstatic. "Nebulous and rather complicated." sniffed Louisiana's Allen Ellender, chairman of the Senate Agriculture Committee. "A do-it-yourself kit for every farm commodity." hooted Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois: the executive branch "could completely divest itself of all responsibility." Argued Vermont's Republican Senator George Aiken: "If farm groups can write their own tickets, some will ask: Why not let labor or industrial groups do the same thing?" Moving Again. The President's farm message...
Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman had asked for authority to drop the market price of corn down to $1 a bushel in order to pressure farmers into the acreage-restriction program. The House gave him the authority, but the Senate denied it, and Illinois' Everett Dirksen, Senate Republican leader, extracted a promise from his Senate Democratic colleague, Agriculture Committee Chairman Allen Ellender, that he would not give Freeman the power to drop prices. To help this toothless program through Congress, Secretary Freeman sweetened the pot to the tune of some $2 billion this year by raising support prices for dairy...
...matters of principle, there was plenty of confusion. Senate Minority Leader Ev Dirksen noted that the Kennedy Administration had failed to propose a civil rights bill, promised to "unfurl" one of his own. Morton agreed that it would be a smart move, but House Minority Leader Charlie Halleck and Arizona's Senator Barry Goldwater demurred. Said Goldwater, who has a greater following in the South than any other Republican: "We have literally bent over backwards to attract the Negro vote, but they don't vote for us." Lamented one G.O.P. leader: "We've got to find...
Republicans on Capitol Hill took up last week where Ike left off. Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen (who pronounces "missiles" as "mizzles") wrote to McNamara asking for details of the briefing that had touched off the trouble. The Republican National Committee's newspaper Battle Line got out an extra explaining that the missile gap was the "grand deception of the 1960 campaign...
...They have none of the energy and charm of their opponents in office, and the cohesion of the campaign is no longer with them. If they follow Senator Goldwater they want to "obstruct" the programs of the now Administration; if they are more cautious they content themselves with Senator Dirksen's wish to "modify" them...