Benson's Pleasure

Jim Mahan

International News Photos

The gentleman who looks so irate here is U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson. His own expression indicates that although the camera does not lie, it occasionally gives a wrong impression, for Mr. Benson isn't angry at all. He was telling newsmen at the moment that he was 'pleased at President Eisenhower's thorough grasp of the farm problem.'

Jim Mahan, "Benson's Pleasure," in POYi Archive, Item #2474, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/2474 (accessed May 24, 2025).