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Mondale was back from Europe, Young from Africa. Vance was home from Geneva but getting set to fly to Paris. Blumenthal was in Tokyo. Bergland was packing for the Far East. Rosalynn was off on a seven-nation swing through Latin America. The President was delivering his most comprehensive speech on foreign affairs, entertaining an important leader from abroad and holding a press conference at which all but four questions focused on foreign policy...
Family Exercise. Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal, meanwhile, told the International Monetary Conference in Tokyo that the U.S. faces a "temporary" trade deficit of $23 billion this year because of last winter's high energy demands. Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland, heading for the World Food Conference in Manila, will pledge the Carter Administration's support for increased world food reserves but urge various nations to do whatever they can to increase their own storage capacity. Rosalynn Carter, at the same time, undertakes an unusual exercise in the use of a President's family to deal with substantive...
...showing up in his handling of appointments. Half of the sub-Cabinet-level posts have still not been filled, a problem of increasing concern. Cabinet officers have to spend extra hours testifying before congressional committees since there are few subordinates to go to the Hill. Complains Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland: "I'm the only one in the department who can sign the mail...
...firm on Wall Street. But Vance's assets-six Es, two Ds, three Cs, one B and two As (at least $750,000 and possibly well into the millions) beat Califano's three Es, three Cs and two As (upwards of $345,000). Agriculture Secretary Robert Bergland's salary as a Congressman ($44,600) was more than double the $18,270 he took in from his 600-acre farm in Minnesota...
...freewheeling, gregarious politician, the rangy (6 ft. 2 in.) Bergland is married to a farmer's daughter and is the father of six children. Though he lost his first House race to an entrenched Republican in 1968, he ran a better-financed, more moderate campaign to win two years later. Last November he won a third term with 73% of the vote. When word began to spread that Bergland might be Carter's choice for Agriculture, the phone in his Roseau office began to jangle. The folks back home did not want him to leave...