Word: freemans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ROGER A. FREEMAN The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace Stanford, Calif...
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...
...What Freeman and Driver had done, apparently without realizing it, was to agree in effect with the original Senate amendments-which would have kept the disputed hospitals and agriculture stations open no later than June 30, the end of the current fiscal year. When the President heard what had happened he was thoroughly annoyed, ordered the whole deal called off. Convinced that he stood to lose on the Arab issue unless he gave way, he offered a 60-day postponement of the shutdowns. The conferees held out for 75 days-until...
...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...