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- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
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- © The Author 2022. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Organization of American Historians. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.
- ISSN
- 0021-8723
- eISSN
- 1945-2314
- DOI
- 10.1093/jahist/jaac346
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Abstract
e P Th rice of Plenty: Getting Farm Policy Right in the 1960s Sarah T. Phillips At the press conference of May 22, 1963, the first question posed to John F. Kennedy concerned civil rights: How would the president respond to Governor Georg-e Wal lace’s threat to block the integration of the University of Alabama? After Kennedy answered (he hoped the students would be admitted without federal involvement), reporters quickly moved on to other topics: the National Aeronautics and Spac -e Ad ministration; India; trade negotiations with Europe; Guantanamo Bay; Vietnam; the nuclear test ban treaty; a newly documented link between cigarettes and cancer; and the president’s upcoming audience with the Pope. e q Th uestioners circled back to civil rights just once more, making that subject and Cuba the only issues privileged by two questions apiece. There was one topic, however, on which the president was called to speak no less than five times in this brief session with the press: the wheat referendum of the previous day. The wheat referendum? On May 21 American farmers voted down an administration proposal that would have required significant cuts in grain output in exchange for higher guaranteed prices. The farm
Journal
Journal of American History – Oxford University Press
Published: Dec 1, 2022