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...town sits at the border between the Palouse--one of the largest wheat-, pea- and lentil-growing areas in the U.S.--and the heavily forested timberlands of northern Idaho. "It's a real pretty little town," Petersen says...
Harvard's residents mainly worked as loggers, hauling wood to a sawmill in the nearby town of Potlatch, until the sawmill closed in 1980. Many of the residents are now retired, but some are wheat, canola and barley farmers...
...town sits at the border between the Palouse--one of the largest wheat-, pea- and lentil-growing areas in the U.S.--and the heavily forested timberlands of northern Idaho. "It's a real pretty little town," Petersen says...
Harvard's residents mainly worked as loggers, hauling wood to a sawmill in the nearby town of Potlatch, until the sawmill closed in 1980. Many of the residents are now retired, but some are wheat, canola and barley farmers...
Where was Dole in all this? In and out of synch. As a Congressman in the early '60s he steered clear of racial politics. Dole supported the major civil rights bills, a political possibility for him because he represented a wheat-farming district that was less than 1% black, where racial friction was about as much of a problem as overcrowding. When the New Frontier evolved into the Great Society, he voted against some War on Poverty measures like public-housing subsidies and the bill that established Medicare. But his Small Government conservatism was open to the Big Government payout...