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Kennedy's top choice for Secretary of the Interior was another young, aggressive Congressman: Arizona's Stewart Udall, 40, just re-elected for a fourth term. Heir to one of Arizona's most respected names (his father was Chief Justice of the State Supreme Court; three other...
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It is the second part of the Republican program that might threaten the farmer's existence. Termed Operation Safeguard, it calls for "a substantial expansion of the conservation reserve program." Mr. Nixon would ask farmers to withdraw land from production and rent it to the government for periods of three...
¶ A bigger voice for farmers in federal farm programs. Kennedy said that the "soil conservation" program should be "administered at the local level by local farmers.'' Nixon promised to set up a farmer council to "advise the President on farm programs."
To "safeguard" against future surpluses, Nixon's program would rely heavily on a proposal that New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller urged back in late 1959: greatly expanding the "conservation reserve" (land taken out of crop production and planted to grass or trees). During a "transition period," while...