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...effect, but hold off their subsidy payment claims until the export subsidy rose. The subcommittee's small staff had gathered no evidence that Continental had done any such thing-but no one thought to ask Palmby about it. Earlier, Purcell's subcommittee had allowed Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz to avoid any discussion of specific market transactions concerning wheat on the ground that confidential trade secrets were involved. Butz admitted, after previous denials, that one of his aides had tipped off six large export companies about an impending change in subsidy policy...
...profit comes out of subsidies." The Government's liberalized food-stamp program has helped keep demand for food at an alltime high; that in turn has propped up overall farm prices 13% higher than a year ago. Then there is Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz who has publicly exulted that high retail food prices are merely an overdue reward to the farmer. Says Billy Smith, who owns a medium-sized farm in Statesboro, Ga.: "That man is really telling the story of the farmer, and the President has made no effort to stop...
...avoid issues, or, for that matter, public speaking. His "surrogates" are assuming the task of bringing him to the people. But what does one hear from these men and women (females who are either family members or hold the crusading title, "Consumer Affairs Adviser?") Secretary of Agriculture Earl Butz accuses McGovern of lying about the U.S.-Soviet Grain Deal, and days later Spiro Agnew announces an FBI investigation on the same topic (centering around the original charges made by McGovern). John Connally talks campaign money and Democrats-for-Nixon, but nothing else. Housing and Urban Development Secretary George Romney travels...
...Commodity Credit Corporation gives any other customer: 6⅛% annually, with the entire loan repaid within three years after the last delivery. As recently as Nixon's summit trip to Moscow in May, Soviet negotiators were insisting on interest rates only half as large. Said Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz, who showed American farms to Soviet Agriculture Minister Vladimir Matskevich last fall: "The agreement does not involve subsidies to the Russians...
...growing confidence in the economy and the food-stamp program, among other things-will increase further, driving prices above their already record levels. They are thus keeping unusually large numbers of steers in feed lots and on farms, waiting for a yet-un-reached market peak. Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz is encouraging this game by conducting a campaign against "cheap-food advocates" that borders on rabble-rousing...