Family and education, teaching experiences, selling insurance; politics of the Depression and agriculture: Smoot-Hawley Tariff, Agricultural Adjustment Administration; Truman administration and farm policy: Missouri Valley Authority and Pick-Sloan Plan, appointment of Charles Brannan as Secretary of Agriculture, controversy over flexible parity and price supports; federal farm programs and land use through the 1970s; war on poverty: role of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, Peace Corps, Community Action Programs; Vietnam; international food issues: shortages, Third World production, high tariffs; growth of corporate farming; president, National Farmers Union, 1940-46, role as lobbyist; McCarthyism; viability of Farmer-Labor coalitions; reminiscences of Presidents Franklin Roosevelt, Truman, Johnson and Kennedy, politicians Aubrey Williams, Sam Rayburn, Henry Wallace, Harry Hopkins, Orville Freeman, and Hubert Humphrey
Agriculturists; Agriculture--United States; Agricultural cooperative credit associations; Agriculture--International cooperation; Agriculture, Cooperative; United States Economic conditions 1918-1945; United States Economic conditions 1945-; United States Politics and government 1933-1945; United States Politics and government 1945-1989; Patton, James G. (James George), 1902-1985; National Farmers' Union (U.S.); United States. Agricultural Adjustment Administration; United States. Department of Agriculture
