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...leadership capacity was again being debated because of his hesitation in firing Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz for making an obscene, racist remark...
...hanging on his office wall. A friend of YAF "When they were kids," O'Neill says he dislikes the John Birch Society although "a lot of the things they said are coming true." During the day I spent with him his only unsolicited comment on national politics concerned Earl Butz: "He shouldn't have resigned, he was only telling the truth...
...always interesting to see what government officials say when they think the American people aren't listening. One good example is the recently-published racist remark of Earl Butz. Many others came out during the Vietnam War--for instance, presidential advisor McGeorge Bundy's 1965 statement that "the imperium must first and foremost go to war to support its imperial representatives. Such tautological reasoning lies at the foundation of the imperial role." (reprinted in The Chicago Sun-Times, 7/11/71). What those in power say in private often contrasts sharply with the public image they would like to create...
...when Ford returned to Washington, trouble was waiting. Late in the week he was acutely embarrassed by the revelation that Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, who has long suffered from galloping foot-in-the-mouth disease, had made some obscene and scatological remarks about what he genially referred to as "the coloreds." Ford promptly called Butz into the Oval Office and chewed him out, and Senator Robert Dole, the President's running mate, called the remarks "stupid" and "ill-conceived." G.O.P. Senator Edward Brooke, a black, demanded Butz's resignation. Jimmy Carter declared that Butz's crack...
...entire campaign season: 70,000 farmers attending a "farm fest" on a muddy field in Minnesota's rural Lake Crystal. Introduced rousingly by Senator Hubert Humphrey, who accused the Ford Administration of "violating the law" in imposing embargoes on foreign grain sales, Carter assailed Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz and used a subtle "we" to identify with his attentive audience. "I never met a farmer who wanted a handout," Peanut Processor Carter said. "I never met a farmer who wanted the Government to guarantee him a profit. But we do want to be treated fairly...