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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...
...started to draft a platform acceptable to Nelson Rockefeller, Percy had to hold off insistent pressures from the Old Guard led by Arizona's outspoken Senator Barry Goldwater, who inherited the late Robert Taft's role as the golden boy of Republican conservatism. Where the hearts of the Platform Committee's members lay was vividly evident in the contrasting receptions they gave Rockefeller and Goldwater last week. They listened to Rockefeller with polite attention, never once interrupted him with applause. When Goldwater appeared later the same day to urge the committee to shun the "destructive idea that...
...relief," and passed it on for the Commons' rubber stamp. Her evidence, which varied only in details from the testimony often offered in New York courts: a pair of operatives from the Reliable Detective Bureau had rapped on the door of Room 201 in Montreal's Taft Hotel, surprised Eccles in shorts and one Joanne Laer in a well-mussed bed. Eccles' version was that he and the detectives drove to the hotel together, where he simply registered and then went home. He had met no woman, had not gone upstairs...
...under the President's respectable wing that he flourished for nearly eight years. If he hopes to conserve the votes of those who know him as Ike's protege, he can hardly afford to take too many potshots at the bird. With visions of conservative affection for Taft-like politics dancing in his mind, he must ensure that the Old Guard will not find him indistinguishable from his powerful opponents and stay away from the polls...
...could carry on the party policies-the policies of Nixon and Benson and Dirksen and Goldwater. But this nation cannot afford such a luxury. Perhaps we could afford a Coolidge following Harding. And perhaps we could afford a Pierce following Fillmore. But after Buchanan this nation needed Lincoln; after Taft we needed a Wilson; and after Hoover we needed Franklin Roosevelt." Without saying where this put him, Kennedy riffled back again through history for Nixon's benefit. "The Republican nominee, of course, is a young man. But his approach is as old as McKinley. His party is the party...