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...BUTZ signs marched outside the White House, the Secretary walked in on Monday to see the President alone. Though Ford had been offended by the non-joke, he still felt sympathy for Butz, whom he does not consider a bigot. Butz was close to breaking down. Said he later: "[The President] should have kicked me right in the pants. Instead, he put his arm around...
...eyed, Butz emerged to tell newsmen that the use of a racial jibe did not reflect his real attitude. Resigning, said Butz, "is the price I pay for a gross indiscretion in a private conversation." Half an hour later, Ford said that "Earl Butz has been and continues to be a close personal friend and a man who loves his country and all it represents." Accepting the resignation of "this good and decent man," Ford declared, had been "one of the saddest decisions of my presidency...
There was no immediate indication that Ford's firing of Butz would hurt him badly in the Midwest, although some farmers were angry-particularly the big operators who had benefited most from the Secretary's policies, since early 1973, of encouraging production and pushing exports of farm surpluses. During his five years in office, Butz helped increase the farmers' net income by 60%. Allan Grant, president of the conservative American Farm Bureau Federation (2.4 million members), bemoaned Butz's resignation, calling him the best Secretary of Agriculture in the nation's history. But many farmers...
...Butz was city-slickered by the Kremlin. The Soviets, dealing secretly with private companies and paying bargain rates for grain exports that were then subsidized by the Government, bought up 25% of the U.S. wheat crop, plus massive quantities of corn and soybeans. A Senate subcommittee charged Butz's department with "inept management" and "total lack of planning" in overseeing the deals. The resulting domestic food shortage-along with other factors-helped drive up retail food prices...
...Butz survived his jousts with consumers, environmentalists and what he called the "striped-pants boys" in the State Department. He lived down the uproar from many Catholics, notably...