No President lays down his burden of responsibility with the record wholly summed up on one side of the ledger. Dwight Eisenhower's accomplishments in eight years of peace and prosperity were a strong defense of freedom abroad and a positive push to free enterprise at home. But there were also debits:
THE FARM PROBLEM. When Harry Truman left office, the cost of price supports and food storage was averaging $1.5 billion a year; when Dwight Eisenhower retired to private life, the cost had soared to a disastrous $9 billion annually. Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson's principle of a free market for agriculture...