“Weak-Kneed Republicans and Socialist Democrats”: Ezra Taft Benson as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, 1953–61, Part 2
March 19, 2018[…] drawbacks to Benson’s public participation in the 1960 campaign were obvious. A reporter from the Chicago Daily News asked Eisenhower on August 10, 1960: “Do you regret having kept Ezra Taft Benson on as […]