doi:10.7916/d8-e3t7-6s38Reminiscences of Robert Bergland, 1982Bergland, Bob, 1928-2018oral historiessound recordingssound recording - nonmusicalCabinet officers--United StatesLegislators--United StatesAgriculture--Economic aspectsAgriculture and stateGreen RevolutionUnited States Politics and government 1969-1974United States Politics and government 1974-1977United States Politics and government 1977-1981Bergland, Bob, 1928-2018Carter, Jimmy, 1924-Organization of Petroleum Exporting CountriesUnited States. Department of AgricultureUnited States. CongressCongressional 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