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- years in research, I spent the next three years with the Secretary's office working on agricultural policy questions and serving as advisor to the Secretary on questions of foreign agriculture policy that is, agricultural development, food aid
- Biographical information; not active in partisan politics; Indian food crisis; PL 480; self-help concept; differences with AID on emphasis of priority; operating under State Department's budget; improvement of Vietnamese agriculture; defoliants
Oral history transcript, Robert F. Woodward, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by Paige E. Mulhollan
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- . Well, of course, in such unusual situations as Viet Nam, that's very much the case . Usually when that's true, it's where there is a large aid program, or where there are U . M: S . military bases . Well, then the non-State Department agencies
- , '~ook, So this sort of information then we've got to make some changes here in the target area of the Manpower Development and Training Act." And of course at this time we were also aided and assisted and proded, you might say, by some of the things
- are going to have to change our goals. B: There has already been some criticism that farm programs don't necessarily aid farmers or consumers, but aid mostly landowners. W: That is correct. And we are now actively working on analyses of how
- relations with other nations in the world: trade; to some extent, aid policy; the GATT. We had in those days, I suppose it's still true, never less than four negotiations for civil aviation agreements going on simultaneously. So the whole gamut