Reminiscences of James G. Patton, 1979.

Biographical Note

Agriculturist

Scope and Contents

Family and education, teaching experiences, selling insurance; politics of the Depression and agriculture: Smoot-Hawley Tariff, Agricultural Adjustment Administration; Truman administration and farm policy: Missouri Valley Authority and Pick-Sloan Plan, appointment of Charles Brannan as Secretary of Agriculture, controversy over flexible parity and price supports; federal farm programs and land use through the 1970s; war on poverty: role of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, Peace Corps, Community Action Programs; Vietnam; international food issues: shortages, Third World production, high tariffs; growth of corporate farming; president, National Farmers Union, 1940-46, role as lobbyist; McCarthyism; viability of Farmer-Labor coalitions; reminiscences of Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Johnson and Kennedy, politicians Aubrey Williams, Sam Rayburn, Henry Wallace, Harry Hopkins, Orville Freeman, and Hubert Humphrey

Subjects

• Agricultural cooperative credit associations.
• Agriculture, Cooperative.
• Agriculture--International cooperation.
• Agriculture--United States.
• Agriculturists--Interviews.
• Edwin, Ed, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• National Farmers' Union (U.S.)
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Patton, James G. (James George), 1902-1985--Interviews.
• United States--Economic conditions--1918-1945.
• United States--Economic conditions--1945-
• United States--Politics and government--1933-1945.
• United States--Politics and government--1945-1989.
• United States. Agricultural Adjustment Administration.
• United States. Department of Agriculture.

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Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1984