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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Having suffered through the woolly-headed schemes of the New Deal Agriculture Department (he twice submitted his resignation to Henry Wallace, twice got talked out of leaving), Milton Eisenhower agrees with Republican Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson's stand against high, rigid, surplus-producing farm subsidies, has defended Benson against his critics. But not in the White House. "This," he has told the President, "is one thing on which I have definite opinions and strong views. I shouldn't be talking about the job of your Agriculture Secretary...
...Abilene Daily Reflector, Milton was even more attracted by the promise of a teaching career from Kansas State President William Jardine, who had been vastly impressed by the scholarship of earnest, bespectacled Milton Eisenhower. Milton accepted Jardine's offer-but wound up with another job. A Republican Party fieldworker came to Kansas State to help Milton organize a campus political club, casually suggested that Milton apply for the consular service. Milton did; soon came a telegram offering him a consular post in Edinburgh. Milton uneasily approached Jardine for an honorable exit route from the faculty register. "Well," said President...
From Kansas State, Milton Eisenhower moved to the presidency of Penn State, and there, in 1952, he heard from Dwight, then in Paris commanding SHAPE. Irresistible pressures were building for Ike to make the run for the Republican nomination for President. Inevitably, the final decision would be Ike's own. But in the making of that decision, he wanted Milton's valued advice. Milton's opinion: Ike should...
Done to death last week after lingering illness in the U.S. House of Representatives: the Kennedy-Ives labor bill, which would have required labor unions to publish financial reports and take other reform measures. The end came to Kennedy-Ives after a long, bitter Democratic-Republican political battle won by neither side. All that really emerged from the unseemly performance was the identity of the loser...
Actually, neither Democrats nor Republicans much liked the Kennedy-Ives bill. Many Democrats thought that it was too strong; most Republicans considered it too weak. But as labor's mess loomed high on the list of political issues for this fall's campaign, Republicans could point to the fact that it was House Speaker Sam Rayburn who had sat on the Kennedy-Ives bill for "40 days and 40 nights," thereby ruling out any real chance of its passing. The Republicans could also campaign on the fact that House Democrats had shelved a G.O.P. labor bill, stronger than...