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...enemy, one with no concern for humanitarian ideals." The next day the convention voted by a substantial majority, to avoid "political" positions. At the same time, the families moved their next convention date from September 1972 to May, so that they can attempt to turn their appeal into political clout during next year's presidential campaign if they are not satisfied with developments by next spring...
...Less Clout. For many of the 3,000,000 U.S. farmers, the pleasure derived from the bumper crop is tempered by a wistful remembrance of things past. Its numbers much diminished by increasing mechanization on ever larger tracts, the farm bloc has lost much of its political clout in Washington and the nation. A chronic dissatisfaction afflicts small farmers, many of whom are forced off the land each year. Those who remain face persistent rises in production costs; last year, despite a record gross income of $56.6 billion, farmers wound up with total earnings of $15.7 billion-$500 million less...
...search for equity preoccupied most of the experts who testified before Congress's Joint Economic Committee. Paul McCracken, chairman of Nixon's Council of Economic Advisers, hinted strongly at what has become a general assumption in Washington-that some form of wage and price restraint with "clout" and "punch" will be extended beyond the freeze. McCracken also predicted that the Nixon program would create some 500,000 new jobs -enough to reduce unemployment to about 5%. He said that the Administration expected Nixon's measures to add some $15 billion to the gross national product...
...Economic Policy is a failure, then John Connally's brightening star will surely fade, Shultz could re-emerge with new political clout, and Spiro Agnew?who was consulted in the New Economic Policy deliberations, as he never was about the overtures to Peking?would find himself no longer threatened by Connally for the vice-presidential nomination in 1972. In that case, however, even the Republican presidential nomination would be worth very little, for Nixon's best chance to get the U.S. economy under control would have failed...
...Nixon's campaign, distrust Stans' blunt conservatism; at the N.A.A.C.P. convention last month, he was roundly jeered. Big businessmen who want to get something done in Washington bypass Stans even more frequently than they did his predecessors and deal instead with White House aides, who have more clout. Many corporate leaders, who have generally grown more liberal in recent years, feel it is unfortunate that President Nixon does not have a Commerce Secretary more in step with the needs of the time -and with their own desires...