Richard Nixon actually said...

There has been a 31 percent increase in the cost of production, farm debt is up 90 percent, and 903,000 farms have disappeared from the countryside just since 1960.

Context

Remarks in Des Moines, Iowa: Modern American Agriculture: An Opportunity for Service in the 1970's

09/13/1968

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