NIXON SAYS DEMS ASKING FARMERS TO SELL BIRTHRIGHT 'FOR A MESS OF POTTAGE'
La Crosse, Wisconsin (JFK+50) On October 9, 1960, Vice-President Richard Nixon addressed a "capacity crowd" at the auditorium here in La Crosse* saying that Senator John F. Kennedy's proposed farm program would cause liberty to disappear and...
"the farmer would be made into a Government servant."
The Vice-President added that the Democrats are asking farmers to sell their birthright "for a mess of pottage."
JFK+50 NOTE
The evening before Kennedy and Nixon had faced off in the second of four presidential debates. The Sunday Star reports that while the candidates thought they did a great job, the voters "weren't budged."
The Star says Nixon's airport crowd later on Oct 9th was smaller and "less enthusiastic" than expected.
*La Crosse is the most populous city on the western border of Wisconsin. LC borders the Mississippi River & today is a regional educational, medical, manufacturing & transportation hub.
SOURCE
"Nixon Blasts Kennedy Plan," by David S. Broder, The Sunday Star, Washington, D.C., October 9, 1960, Chronicling America, Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/
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