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Dates: during 1950-1959
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The embattled Agriculture Secretary was, as Loveless sensed, a big factor in the campaign. The Fourth District's farmers have been hit by falling prices,* and they reflect accurately the national discontent with the Benson farm program. Kyi, an attractive, articulate TV newscaster and clothing merchant, was careful to...
In Washington, G.O.P. National Chairman Thruston Morton hailed Iowa's Fourth. "An indication that the Republican Party is on its way to a great victory in 1960," he crowed. The election was indeed a useful clue, but it was not quite a harbinger of another Republican springtime. It indicated...
On Benson's Black Sunday he was in Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital, convalescing from a gall bladder operation and brooding about the campaign by high-level Republicans to dump him as a political liability. The day before, Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton had dropped a blackjack...
Resignation. Benson turned on a TV set, watched calmly as Morton, on Face the Nation, declared that the Republican Party has to face the "political fact" of Benson's unpopularity in the farm belt.
After the program, Benson telephoned Morton, arranged an appointment with him for the following day. Then Benson wrote out a statement: "Resign? I am resigned to one thing: to do my duty as I see it, to continue my fight for a prosperous, expanding and free agriculture." In a 45...