Richard Nixon actually said...

I want to say, too, though, that when I did appoint him, I wanted a man who would speak for the farmers and for American agriculture to the White House rather than the other way around.

Context

Remarks to the United States Department of Agriculture Corn Blight Conference at Beltsville, Maryland.

12/16/1970

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