Now, Therefore, I, Harry S. Truman, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the above-quoted statutory provisions, do hereby declare a...
John Sparkman was the son of a tenant farmer in Alabama; and if there's anything he doesn't understand about agriculture...
As I have said time and again, I wish I was 18 instead of 68.
Farmers sometimes took things into their own hands in those days, when the courthouse walls were plastered with mortgage...
I never thought the Hoover farm depression was good for anybody.
The change that has taken place since then is almost unbelievable.
A large majority of Republicans voted against the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act of 1936.
But a lot of us older people do, and I don't think it's something the country can afford to forget.
You are the Government.
Now, I want to talk to you today about the farm programs of the Federal Government.
There you have the story of the cow who met an ignominious end, and still owes 70 cents on her freight.