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...Charmed Circle." Soapy owed much of his continuing success to Republican arrogance, ineptness, lack of leadership. A 1952 split between Eisenhower and Taft factions died hard. General Motors subsequently supported a conservative wing, while the Fords boosted the liberals. Some big contributors from the auto industry slowed their cash flow when the Republicans began to lose elections.*A determined band of G.O.P. greybeards in the state senate gave the party a black name. They fought free polio vaccine for children, opposed spending bills for education and mental health, blocked efforts to revamp the state industrial code, which was written...
...party system going in Orval Faubus' one-party state. ¶ Aging (87) David O. McKay, "Prophet, Seer and Revelator" as well as president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, sat side by side with Vice President Nixon (in the company of Mormon Apostle Ezra Taft Benson) in the church office in Salt Lake City and said: "I sat by your competitor a few days ago. I said to him, 'If you win, we'll support you.' Today I say to you I hope you are successful.' Though McKay's Nixon...
...trees). During a "transition period," while Operation Consume plus the expanded conservation reserve gradually cut back surpluses, Nixon would use a combination of price supports and acreage controls to cope with major problem crops such as wheat-a Democratic-style program of the type that Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson opposes.* But once markets for farm products "achieve a new buoyancy," Nixon would shift to a Benson-style support program with no production controls, and support levels "based on the average of market prices over the immediately preceding crop years...
...crowd-pleasing talents, his appeal to independents, and the need for his help to swing New York's 45 electoral votes. Rockefeller refused to join the ticket, but agreed to support Nixon. The Midwestern Republicans, still resentful of Lodge's role in derailing Ohio's Taft in 1952, wanted Nixon to pick Kentucky's Senator Thruston B. Morton, G.O.P. National Chairman, for his Vice President. Everybody agreed he would add to Republican appeal in the South. But after Kennedy's surprise choice of Texas' Lyndon B. Johnson as his running mate, dismayed Nixonmen shared...
...Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, clearly Dick Nixon's idea of a political albatross, stubbornly refused to go away. In Salt Lake City, Benson-once a Rockefeller partisan-said he was strongly for Nixon as "the candidate who will be best for America." Talk of Nixon repudiating him, said Benson, was "crazy...