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...Ike Proposes Research Unit...
...Johnson saw opportunity: REA was one of those rare issues where Democrats of the South would likely stick together with other Democrats around the compass. They decided they could muster the necessary two-thirds vote to override the veto and doubly defeat the President. Republican Leader Everett Dirksen and Ike's other lieutenants in the Senate were in glum agreement; with the help of six farm-bloc minded Republicans (Kentucky's John Sherman Cooper. South Dakota's Francis Case and Karl Mundt, North Dakota's Milton Young and "Wild Bill" Langer, Nebraska's Carl Curtis...
...reluctant colleagues in the teeth of immense home-front opposition. Telephones buzzed and wires poured in from rural constituencies, urging passage of the bill. Worried Republicans from farm districts pleaded that a nay vote would be political harakiri, but Halleck sternly told them that it was a case of Ike or REA's Ellis-take your choice...
While they worked behind the scenes, President Eisenhower appeared at the meeting to make a plea for his foreign-aid program. Part of that program, said Ike, is "a freer flow of world trade. We must do this without prejudice to our national security and without inflicting undue hardship on our local producers. Especially among the less-developed countries we must use every available means to assure that these people not only add to the free world's strength, but eventually become valued participants as both sellers and buyers in the markets of world trade...
...Despite Ike's urging, it was soon clear that the protectionists had accomplished their task. When the chamber issued its 32-page policy statement, some of the strongest bids for free trade were deleted. Gone was the sentence: "For the benefit of the economy of the nation as a whole, business and Government should encourage increased imports into the U.S." Also struck out was the chamber's opposition to "Buy American legislation." A chamber spokesman denied that the chamber had changed its views, called the alterations in the text "little sops that helped quiet the opposition...