Word: bergland
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...Carter could claim proven experience among other nominees. Minnesota Congressman Bob Bergland, his prospective Agriculture Secretary, is a real farmer. Carter also managed, finally, to find women for his Cabinet: black Washington Attorney Patricia Harris, who will be Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; and Economist Juanita Kreps, named to Commerce...
Jimmy Carter wanted to put a farmer in charge of U.S. agriculture, and he made good on that goal-very good. Amiable Bob Bergland, 48, a three-term Congressman from northern Minnesota, is an authentic sodbuster who knows the ups and downs of farming at first hand. Son of a mechanic and farmer, he spent two winters as a carpenter to work off debts before making a go of a 600-acre spread planted to seed and feed grain hard by the Canadian border near Roseau, Minn...
...Hill, Bergland has blamed former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz's laissez-faire farm policy for putting farmers in peril of a "disastrous cycle of boom and bust." Butz abolished costly Government food stockpiles and deeply slashed the multibillion-dollar farm subsidies established in the Kennedy-Johnson era. At the same time, he launched an aggressive food-export push that has helped boost farmers' incomes...
...Bergland will probably continue the emphasis on exports, but he is also expected to bring the Government back into U.S. agriculture in a big way. One objective: to protect smaller operations among the U.S.'s 2.8 million farms (down from 5.4 million in 1950). This intervention will take the form of higher crop-support prices and increased crop loans coupled with creation of a national grain-reserve system to cushion farmers against price fluctuations...
...this week: former Fifth Circuit Appeals Court Judge Griffin Bell, now a law partner of Carter Adviser Charles Kirbo. Two other appointments could come early in the week but are less certain: John T. Dunlop as Labor Secretary, a post he held under President Ford, and Minnesota Congressman Bob Bergland as Agriculture Secretary...