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...dominant theme was Government corruption. Where earlier he had called Nixon's the most corrupt Administration since Warren Harding, he now called it "the most corrupt in the history of the U.S." The evidence, said McGovern, was everywhere-in the Russian wheat deal, in the President's $10 million in secret campaign contributions, in the ITT affair and the Watergate bugging. Then he broadened his definition to include the war in Viet Nam, which he said "corrupts our principles." Nixon's Supreme Court nominations, he went on, corrupt the Constitution and were "the worst Supreme Court appointments...
...current Washington incidents, of course, are not fully comparable with all these cases. The Watergate caper is a murky and complex fight among politicians with which few citizens can identify. As for the wheat deal, the $10 million fund for Nixon's re-election that his committee refuses to open for account, ITT and the rest - there are as yet no proven law violations...
...permitted the artificially supported price of milk to rise after sizable campaign contributions from the National Dairy Association. Small grain farmers did not profit from the U.S.-U.S.S.R. trade agreement because big grain dealers, informed of an impending contract by their close Department of Agriculture contacts, simply bought up wheat and waited for the Russian deal to raise prices." The greatest scandal of all, of course, is the Watergate farce, a thoroughly unprincipled try at political espionage. Recent newspaper accounts expose the efforts of Republican officials to sabotage the Muskie candidacy in New Hampshire by forging letters and subverting campaign...
...grain company can be better than its information. Banks of ever-chattering telex machines pump a daily flood of intelligence, some in intricate code, into Cargill's headquarters: a competitor's wheat bid in Latin America, weather conditions in Australia, political jockeying in the Middle East, rumored tax increases in Japan. In the chateau's former living room, a dozen or so executives scan an electronic quote board which tells them the price of soybeans in Chicago, wheat in Kansas City, rapeseed in Thunder Bay and oats in Winnipeg. On the basis of that information, Cargill executives...
...hazards, the chances of reaping a bonanza remain tempting, especially if the Government eases the way to profits. The Russian wheat deal was made possible by the Government drive to increase U.S.-U.S.S.R. trade, and Government subsidies helped