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...Halleck swung Old Guard Indiana to Internationalist Tom Dewey on the promise, he thought, of the vice-presidential nomination (California's Earl Warren got it). In 1952 Halleck's support of Dwight Eisenhower was a sharp blow to the embittered forces of Ohio's Bob Taft. In 1956 he nominated...
...only "the one-fifth that gives us trouble." Plaintively, he predicted that the November elections would vindicate him, that politicians who repudiated him and his program would be defeated. On and on he rambled, fervently, insistently. Then the passer-by went his way, and Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson-disheartened by the failure of his programs, burdened by the staggering costs of farm subsidies that he had once hoped to abolish, damned by farmers, ignored by Congress, repudiated by many fellow Republicans -finished his meal in lonely silence...
...trying to draft a bill to bring some order into the ever-growing mess of farm subsidies and surpluses, challenged the Democratic Congress to pass a reasonable bill on its own. The Democrats reasoned that it would be better to pass no bill and let Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson harvest some more blame for farm discontent. But word has drifted back from the farm belt that Democrats may well be blamed if they do not pass a bill. Probable next move: drafting of a farm bill as unreasonable-by Ike's terms-as possible, to ensure an Eisenhower...
...Thus a steady stream of stories trickled into the nation's press, attributing Nixon's views to "high authorities," "Nixon spokesmen," or "well-informed circles." Thus the U.S. learns that Nixon intends to speak out on his own after the nomination, that he considers Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson a political liability, that he has played a major role in getting the Administration to revise itself on old-age medical-assistance programs...
...dream of the Republican Party's conservative wing is a campaign where a clear-cut conservative candidate can match issues with a purebred Republican liberal. Few elections seem to break that way (e.g., Conservative Bob Taft was up against a glamorous general in 1952). but this year's New Jersey Republican primary for the U.S. Senate seemed the classic test...