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What was striking about the Carter proposals was their familiarity. In philosophy, they represent a return to the broad-brush, stockpiling farm-management policies introduced more than four decades ago. These policies were abandoned by Richard Nixon's aggressive, foot-in-mouth Agriculture Secretary, Earl Butz, a dedicated free marketeer. Butz's emphasis on an all-out export drive for farm products yielded spectacular results, including a threefold increase in the domestic price of wheat-but that was largely the result of bad harvests in China and the Soviet Union. One form of Government intervention that even Butz...
...South Korean government funds in 1967 to help finance the fashionable George Town Club, which Park founded in 1966 as a way to get cozy with top U.S. officials. The posh club's 1976 roster of 400 members included six Supreme Court Justices; former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz; Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano and a score of Senators and Representatives. In all, federal investigators believe, Park may have spent as much as $2 million on parties at the club he had founded and gifts for his friends...
...think a more appropriate tag for Andrew Young would be "Young Butz...
Northwestern University Professor Arthur R. Butz raised hell last winter after he argued that the Holocaust was a gigantic hoax. A newly expanded and somewhat sanitized version of Hitler's Table Talk has been prepared in West Germany. At first such offerings seem variations on Comedian Mel Brooks' idea for a Busby Berkeley-type musical called Springtime for Hitler. In fact, they help to distort evidence and pervert history...
...dean emeritus of Purdue's school of agriculture, ex-Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz has already adjusted quite nicely. Says Butz, who spends most of his time talking to farm groups for up to $2,000 a speech: "I've discovered that what I'd been giving away, I could make money on. Gosh, I've got seven more talks lined up now, in Illinois, Ohio and Iowa." Former Treasury Secretary William Simon, who has political ambitions, is a client of the same Los Angeles public relations firm that handles Ronald Reagan. Soon he will be airing...