I believe our present congressional deadlock on the subject has resulted from an insistence on the one hand that we move toward more normal conditions at a speed and by a means that would have failed adequately to protect farmer income in the period of transition.
Speech by the Vice President of the United States at the 1960 Soil Conservation Field Days, Sioux Falls, SD
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This, more than anything, is what I hope will be my legacy to you, to our country, as I leave the Presidency.
To leave office before my term is completed is abhorrent to every instinct in my body.
This country needs good farmers, good businessmen, good plumbers, good carpenters.
I firmly believe that our current fiscal situation demands national unanimity on the issues of a larger concern.
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