Word: val
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...VAL REICHENTHAL Mayfield...
...SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE : 1) Kansas' Representative Clifford Hope, a savvy farm spokesman and Ike's campaign adviser on agriculture; 2) Governor Val Petersen of Nebraska; 3) Senator Frank Carlson of Kansas...
...Army Engineers, Interior's Bureau of Reclamation and Agriculture's Soil Conservation Service. A year later, President Truman's Water Resources Policy Commission proposed a basin commission with an independent chairman appointed by the President. In 1951, valley governors, led by Nebraska's Val Peterson, came out for a ten-state interstate compact, to include one federal member (with ten votes) on its "water master" governing board...
...Val Peterson put it: "It is no longer a question of whether planning and building is good or bad. It is being done. The question is, how and by whom?" And, since most of the money for the work must come from elsewhere in the nation, the entire U.S. has a great stake in the development program and the future of the Big Muddy's basin...
Eisenhower had some ideas about the sort of fellow he wanted for a running mate: a young, "forward-looking" man, and someone who would help him get along with Congress. Among others, he considered Senators Knowland and Nixon, Governors Warren, Sherman Adams (New Hampshire), Val Peterson (Nebraska), Dan Thornton (Colorado). Brother Milton Eisenhower plugged for Taft; although Eisenhower advisers thought that Taft 1) would be bad for the ticket, 2) would not accept anyway. Eisenhower left the final decision to a meeting of his advisers, presided over by Herbert Brownell, at the Hilton, on the afternoon of his nomination...