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...Something. In fact, during 1958 the President has exercised strong leadership of rare quality. He fought hard, long and successfully to push the three essentials of his program-defense reorganization, foreign aid, and reciprocal trade-through a reluctant Congress. He stood staunchly behind the attempts of Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson to bring sanity into the farm-subsidy program when many a Republican Congressman was yelping for Benson's scalp. After the revolution in Iraq last July, it took President Eisenhower only twelve hours to have U.S. Marines landing in Lebanon -and not even from Democratic liberals has there...
Died. Martha Wheaton Bowers Taft, 68, widow of Republican Senator from Ohio Robert A. Taft; in Cincinnati (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
Farmers. Most farmers remain prosperous; yet west of the Mississippi, Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson "remains a prime liability . . . Some Midwestern Republicans are showing themselves more popular than the President because of their known opposition to Benson's farm policies...
Majestic, Big Ben-like bongs pealed out across Washington last week, as carillon experts triumphantly tested, for the first time, the biggest of the 27 French-built bells in the stately, 100-ft. Robert Taft Memorial Tower on Capitol Hill. The tone proved just right, and the tower, built with almost $900,000 in private donations as a memorial to the late Republican Senator from Ohio, would be ready right on schedule for dedication-and presentation to Congress as a gift to the nation-next spring...
...defense but has opposed the Administration on foreign aid and reciprocal trade, has hawked a theory that Eisenhower is damaging the G.O.P., has opened up a violent front against organized labor, and has become a rallying point for right-wingers looking around for a successor to the late Bob Taft...