Reminiscences of Don Paarlberg, 1968.

Biographical Note

Educator, economist

Scope and Contents

Economic Advisor, later Assistant Secretary, Department of Agriculture, 1953-1958: agricultural legislation; Department's relations with Congress, farm organizations, other departments, and the President; Special Assistant to the President and coordinator of Food-for-Peace, 1958-1961; Rural Development Program; Sugar Act; Cabinet meetings. Impressions of Ezra Taft Benson, Dwight Eisenhower, and others

Subjects

• Agriculture--Economic aspects.
• Economists--United States--Interviews.
• Educators--Interviews.
• Edwin, Ed, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.
• Food--International cooperation.
• Interviews.
• Land use, Rural.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Paarlberg, Don, 1911-2006--Interviews.
• United States--Politics and government--1953-1961.
• United States. Department of Agriculture.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1976