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Ezra Taft Benson and the Family Farm
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Thunder from the Right: Ezra Taft Benson in Mormonism and Politics
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Champaign, IL
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University of Illinois Press
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23-52
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This article addresses Ezra Taft Benson's administration as secretary of agriculture under U.S. President Eisenhower and his controversiality in that role. Benson served as secretary for eight years, and "believed the family farm was an ideal incubator of virtue and democracy." He therefore sought to improve circumstances and opportunities for family farmers, yet, as he was a strict anti-communist, he "combated government efforts to prop up marginal farmers with perpetual grants and subsidies--a New Deal legacy that he derisively dubbed socialized agriculture." He preferred family farms to succeed on their own merit, or find employment elsewhere.
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