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...home in Washington, the conference was watched with an intensity and a hopefulness that matched Europe's. At the White House, Vice President Nixon, presiding at a Cabinet meeting, asked Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson to open the meeting with an invocation...
...Voted to give authority to the Robert A. Taft Memorial Foundation to build a monument on the Capitol grounds to the late Ohioan, and set up a commission to make plans for a Franklin D. Roosevelt memorial. New Hampshire's Republican Senator Styles Bridges slyly asked that the Roosevelt commission also consider a memorial to Massachusetts' Republican Calvin Coolidge, but later withdrew the motion...
Then, in 1948, Bandleader Art Mooney used a banjo in a recording of the 1927 hit, I'm Looking Over a Four-Leaf Clover ("that I overlooked before"), and the tune was picked up as Senator Robert A. Taft's presidential campaign song. In 1954 came the Ames Brothers' record of Man with the Banjo, followed by Hey, Mr. Banjo and Banjo's Back in Town...
...members of the subcommittee, including McCarthy, signed the report. But Ohio Republican George Bender, who holds the Senate seat previously occupied by Robert Taft, refused. The subcommittee, Bender pointed out, had found nothing to substantiate Joe McCarthy's screams that "a secret master" of the Pentagon had controlled the Peress case. The report, said Bender, should have spelled out the obvious fact that "not one iota of evidence was revealed to indicate any subversion, collusion, or Communist conspiracy concerned with the handling by the military of the Peress matter...
...Elevators Ready." In Washington, U Nu made summer headlines in unexpected ways. Secretary Ezra Taft Benson invited him to the Department of Agriculture and Benson's aides kept U Nu waiting too long (five minutes) for U Nu. "Tell them we'll see them some other time," politely said U Nu, and walked out. Gasped a State Department man, "If it had happened here, everyone in protocol would have been fired by now." Secretary Benson made an adroit recovery, speeding over to Blair House to apologize to U Nu, taking Mrs. Benson along. She was glad the incident...