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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Detachment, however, had its price, and Eisenhower's contempt for politics often hobbled his leadership. Though he despised Wisconsin's demagogic Senator Joseph McCarthy, he refused to say a public word against him?even when McCarthy viciously attacked George Marshall, and even when a word from the President might have brought McCarthy to heel. "I am convinced that the way for me to defeat Senator McCarthy is to ignore him," Eisenhower noted in a personal memo in April 1953. "Never to admit that he has damaged me, upset me, or anything else." Again, Ike's above-the-battle concept...
...demographers detect no significant wave of remigration. Nor will there be one until rural America, as Thomas Jefferson once described it, is once again conducive to "the multiplication of men susceptible of happiness, educated in the love of order, habituated to self-government, and valuing its blessings above all price...
...insists California's Republican Governor Ronald Reagan, and to prove it, said he could not scrape up the dough to buy the house he has been renting in Sacramento. His lease was running out, and the landlord wanted him to get up the $150,000 purchase price or get out by April 1. To the rescue came 14 citizens who bought the house, then leased it back to Reagan at his normal $1,250-a-month rent. California Democrats were so touched they organized a "Bundles for Reagan" campaign, urging people to mail a "bag of anything...
...Wood prices have been highly volatile during the past year. The cost of plywood has risen by 77%. Douglas fir lumber, used mostly in housing, has doubled in price in many localities. Housing's surprising winter strength has only heightened the price pressure. Last week the Commerce Department reported that new housing starts reached an annual rate of 1,700,000 in February, well above last year's total...
Limiting Exports. Builders blame the price problem not only on heavy domestic demand, but on rising exports to Japan, whose timber purchases in the U.S. have increased twentyfold since 1960. Last year the Japanese bought enough lumber to erect 40% of the U.S. output of one-family homes. In response to complaints that numerous small lumber mills as well as price stability have been imperiled, Congress last fall sharply limited exports of lumber harvested from federal forests. But prices have continued to rise, partly because of severe winter weather in the Pacific Northwest and the recent East Coast longshoremen...