EARL BUTZ

(Earl Lauer Butz)


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President Ford forced him to resign. He had been a holdover from the Nixon Administration. Ford did not chooses him. Nixon appointed him on the advice of the ultra conservatives in the party who liked the fact that he wanted to dismantle many of the FDR New Deal policies. However, he came from Indiana which was the lost racist of all the Northern States. In the 1920s Indiana had the largest membership in the KKK of any state in the Union, and Butz came from this line of racists. He also was convicted for Federal Tax Evasion.


Most American policy makers have believed that food should not by used as a weapon on moral and humitarian grounds. Butz was an ultra-conservative who were among the few that were willing to use food to achieve political opbjectives even it it meant starving people in other countries.


His mission was to assist the small farmers. However he wrote them off with this flip remark.


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Earl Butz
Earl Butz
  • Born: July 3, 1909
  • Died: February 2, 2008
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Public Servant

Earl Lauer "Rusty" Butz was a United States government official who served as Secretary of Agriculture under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. His policies favored large-scale corporate farming and an end to New Deal programs.