Hello everyone welcome to another follow him favorites you know the drill

John and I are sharing a single story to go with this week's come follow me lesson

Hank when I got home from my mission, I'm older than you, President Ezra Taff Benson became the president of the

church.

This is a story about him.

Now he had something very unique in his life.

He was actually in President Dwight D. Eisenhower's cabinet as the Secretary of Agriculture

while he was a member of the 12.

It never happened today. I can't see that ever happen they're so busy

this is what shari wrote in her book profits can see around corners

this starts on page eighty four

in nineteen fifty nine elder estertft benson then a member of the 12 was serving simultaneously in US

President Dwight D Eisenhower's cabinet as Secretary of Agriculture. In that

capacity he undertook a trip to Moscow at the height of the Cold War.

Okay, think not Russia, think Soviet Union. At the height of the Cold War, the relationship

between the US and the Soviet Union was frosty.

I got to tease Sherry about that.

Height of the Cold War, it was frosty.

That's good, Sherry, I see what you did.

Secretary Benson's plane was believed to be only the second U.S. Air Force plane to fly into Moscow since

World War II. Though Secretary Benson visited Moscow to meet with the Soviet Minister of Agriculture and to inspect the state of

Soviet farming, from the time he arrived he repeatedly requested that he be

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