Word: midwesternisms
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Vividly aware that many angry Midwestern farmers blame Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson for the 30% shrinkage in farm income during the past eight years, Richard Nixon is bent on plowing Benson under. Nixon got an assist from Benson himself, who before the Republican Convention announced his preference for Rockefeller. Fortnight ago Nixon declared that it was "essential" to break away from Benson's policies, called for "a massive program which is not concerned with budgetary costs year by year...
...Candidate Kennedy's Hyannisport headquarters, eight Democratic Midwestern Governors and Senators, calling on their leader, dredged up a Benson statement saying that Nixon "had participated in the development" of the Administration's farm program. This moved Kennedy to declare that Nixon's "betrayal of the Benson farm program which he helped to write accurately pinpointed Mr. Nixon's lack of basic beliefs." And Election was still twelve weeks away...
Into a Trap? Nixon was in plenty of trouble. His meeting earlier in New York with Republican Liberal Nelson Rockefeller, and his 14-point agreement of principles ("The Treaty of Fifth Avenue"). had rocked Midwestern, Southern and Western Republicans. Conservatives, led by the vocal and determined Barry Goldwater, stormed through the city, accusing Nixon of nothing less than treachery. Behind guarded hotel doors, the G.O.P. Platform Committee and all its subcommit tees foundered in a ragged dispute among conservatives, liberals and moderates. As moderates gritted their teeth and dug in, the platform was shaping up to something close...
Shattered Hopes. A cool political technician like Richard Nixon could appreciate the cool engineering that brought Jack Kennedy his victory. Kennedy painstakingly gathered Midwestern Democratic politicians into his camp, used their convention votes to capture the nomination. The prize won, he turned his back on the Midwesterners, shattering their hopes that one of their own would be the vice-presidential nominee...
...nomination, he had courted Midwestern and Western Governors and Senators, dangling the vice-presidency, Cabinet jobs and key convention posts before favorite sons' eyes. But the November election called for a firm alliance with the Solid South to balance Kennedy strength in Roman Catholic industrial centers-and to save Kennedy from Al Smith's loss of seven Southern states in 1928. So with adding-machine abruptness, the Midwestern and Western romances were broken...