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...mild tone buttressed rumors that the text had been drastically rewritten at the request of G.O.P. members of Congress, backed up by Vice President Nixon. At the President's press conference, a newsman asked about "the Vice President's role in reshaping the farm message." Replied Ike: "Well, this is the first time I have heard about him reshaping...
...reserve" to 60 million acres from the present 28 million, and 2) a new wheat program that would combine repeal of all wheat production controls with a lower support price, based on market prices rather than on the outdated "parity" formula. A new wheat program was "imperatively needed," said Ike-the present program is costing the Federal Government $1,000 a minute, $1.5 million...
...Billion in 7 Years. With its unwar-like invitation to come forward with "any constructive solution," Ike's message-the last farm message of his presidency-had a mood of resignation about it. Behind it lay a disappointing record. Ezra Benson took over as Agriculture Secretary in 1953 with high hopes of cutting back surpluses and trimming the costs of farm programs, but the total of federal funds tied up in stored farm surpluses swelled from $3 billion in 1953 to $9 billion today, and Agriculture Department expenditures soared from $2.9 billion in 1953 to $6.5 billion...
...commercial jet epoch, White House concern mounted. President Eisenhower frankly wondered whether the U.S. was indeed ready for jet transport. "Somebody," he said in the spring of 1955, "has got to take a look." There followed a nine-month committee survey, which reported appalling conditions. A few months later, Ike called in Major General Edward Curtis, Army airman in World Wars I and II (Chief of Staff, Strategic Air Force, Europe), and then (as now) a vice president of Eastman Kodak Co., told him to get going on an analysis of the problems and to bring back the answers...
...Operation Greenhouse, in which the U.S. exploded the first hydrogen bomb at Eniwetok. In 1951, at age 47, Lieut. General Quesada retired. He worked for a while at California's Lockheed Aircraft Corp. (vice president of the missile-systems division), but quit in a row over policy. When Ike called him to Washington, Quesada was dabbling successfully in investments with space-age inventors...