Word: freemans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...going to the press conference when Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman blows his stack at the Republicans, and he blames his ferocity on his breakfast pill: "What do you call them-a unipill? or univac...
Almost Grateful. Appearing before Senator John McClellan's Investigations Subcommittee, beleaguered Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman seemed almost grateful for the week's first scandal. Though there to testify about Estes, he insisted on talking about a new discovery by the Government's General Accounting Office. In 1959 and 1960. the office had found, brokers licensed by the Agriculture Department to purchase surplus cotton for the Government and sell it on the open market had profited illegally by selling $400 million worth to themselves-at prices as much as $20 a bale below market. Cost to the Government...
...Freeman was trying to lay this burden on Republican doorsteps, another turned up in his lap: two more suspensions of minor Agriculture officials came to light. The men were office managers for the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service-the agency embroiled in Billie Sol's fraudulent cotton-allotment dealings. They were ousted in connection with $28,000 worth of illegal rice-allotment sales in Texas' Brazoria and Matagorda counties over the past three years. Both cotton and rice allotments are valuable, since without them farmers are subject to unprofitably stiff penalties for planting and marketing-but their sale...
...Shut Up!" While the FBI went to work. Freeman came under fire for an investigation conducted by his own department. South Dakota's crusty Republican Senator Karl Mundt, a member of the McClellan committee, complained that an Agriculture Department check of his correspondence with the department had inspired Democrats in his home state to ask Freeman for evidence of any connection between Mundt and Billie Sol. Growled Mundt to Minnesotan Freeman: "In the plain Midwestern language that we both understand. I ask you to put up or shut up! If you have any evidence, bring...
...this was hard enough on Freeman, but there was more to come. Just before the hearings ended for the week, two Agriculture Department employees from Oklahoma's Mclntosh County admitted to pocketing $1,640.80 from an Estes agent for helping to arrange cotton-allotment transfers from Oklahoma to Texas. They submitted resignations-but Freeman immediately suspended them, bringing to twelve the number of Agriculture employees he has let go or reprimanded because of links with Estes. All along, Freeman has insisted that doing business with Estes has not cost the Government a dollar. That somewhat misses the point...