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House-Senate conference-committee members threatened to revive the prohibition on food to Nasser unless the Administration agreed to delay the installation shutdown until at least June 30. Appearing before the conferees were Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman and VA Administrator William Driver, just completing his first week on the job. Freeman agreed to delaying the shutdown, signed a letter to that effect. Driver also indicated-or at least so the Congressmen thought-that he would go along...
...something about it, Johnson said that he already had ordered Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman to establish a Rural Community Development Service within the Department of Agriculture to assist other federal agencies in extending their various services to rural areas. As for Congress, Johnson recommended that it enact legislation to equalize the availability of home-mortgage credit in urban and rural areas. He also asked Congress to raise the limits on the Department of Agriculture's loan-insurance program, which insures farm-ownership loans as well as rural-community improvement loans. "We have the opportunity now to provide the means...
...economic reform can go, and what it means. "I think this is a permanent reform," says Pennsylvania's Herbert Levine, "except for a major outside political event. I don't expect that there will be an easy retrenchment to a central economy." But Stanford's Roger Freeman insists that it is "only a period-like China's 100-flowers period. It may appear to open up the Soviet Union, but eventually it must...
...Slave is essentially a kind of Greenwich Villagey talkfest. War has broken out between Negroes and whites, and with the sound of machine-gun and artillery fire in the near distance, a Negro military leader (Al Freeman Jr.) revisits his former white wife, who is now married to a white history professor. Ostensibly, he has come to see his two daughters, possibly to kill them, but mostly to gloat and watch the whites cringe before his oft-waved pistol. At one point, the professor asks if there will be more love or beauty or knowledge in the world after...
Hardly had the November election ballots been counted before Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman began crowing. "Not since the Roosevelt landslide of 1936 has a Democratic candidate received such an overwhelming endorsement in rural America!" he cried. Farm-state votes, Freeman said, gave Lyndon Johnson a "mandate" for continuation of the Kennedy-Johnson farm policies...