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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1968-11-04 (remove)

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  • a very great admiration for what he has accomplished domestically in the last four years . And this is one of the reasons, this is the principal reason, why I consider myself a Democrat and why I'll vote for the Democratic Party, virtually regardless
  • for the agricultural committees and members of Congress on agricultural matters. During that period of time, I had a leave of absence one year with the Food and Agricultural Organization in Chile, and I made two trips to Africa and one to Latin America on a leave
  • was working, as I remember, primarily in military and other fields at that time. F: So you wouldn't have had much-­ M: He wasn't on any of the committees in the Senate that I customarily appeared before during those years. I think the first serious private
  • : the Cuban missile crisis of 1962; service as under secretary of state for economic affairs; LBJ as a practitioner of foreign policy; the Peace Corps in Latin America; the CIA and the overthrow of Arbenz in Guatemala; the Bay of Pigs; Chile nationalizes
  • Department's budget . B: That is correct . Our funding comes through the Foreign Affairs committee, through the A .I .D . budget rather than the Agricultural Appropriations Committee . THB : Does your agency have its own permanent men overseas? I know A .I
  • ; work with military; obstacle to rapid development of agriculture in underdeveloped nations; caliber of people he worked with in foreign countries; training program; encouragement of American investment in factories producing agricultural equipment
  • the Secretary decided to do a survey using the President's Committee on Manpower as a leader in twenty of the large cities in the nation. And we did a survey using the United States Employment Service people of the high intensity slumghetto areas whether