Reminiscences of Robert Bergland, 1982
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- Name
- Bergland, Bob, 1928-2018 (Interviewee)
- Edwin, Ed (Interviewer)
- Title
- Reminiscences of Robert Bergland, 1982
- Abstract
- Congressional tenure, 1970-77: creation of Commodities Futures Trading Commission, Soviet grain sales, Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and the oil embargo, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, surplus dumping programs; Secretary of Agriculture, 1977-81; intelligence gathering, Food Stamp program, Farmer-owned Grain Reserve Program, budgeting prodecures, soil erosion control, American Agricultural Movement, 1978-79, Food for Peace Program (Public Law 480), embargo on Soviet grain sales, 1979-80, issuance of nutritional guidelines, school lunch program, pest and predator control, loan and insurance programs; Presidential campaign, 1980; Equal Opportunity; views on: farm income and price support plans, crop subsidies, large vs family farms, farm workers, market orders, foreign and minority farm ownership, the Green Revolution, foreign agriculture, organic farming; impressions of Jimmy Carter, other officials
- Collection Name
- Individual interviews oral history collection
- Subjects
- Cabinet officers--United States; Legislators--United States; Agriculture--Economic aspects; Agriculture and state; Green Revolution; United States Politics and government 1969-1974; United States Politics and government 1974-1977; United States Politics and government 1977-1981; Bergland, Bob, 1928-2018; Carter, Jimmy, 1924-; Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries; United States. Department of Agriculture; United States. Congress
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1982
- Note (Biographical)
- Congressman, Secretary of Agriculture
- Note
- Interviewed by Ed Edwin
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 15310663
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-e3t7-6s38
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.