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The original documents are located in Box 43, folder "1975/04/14 - Republican Members of
the Senate Agriculture Committee" of the James M. Cannon Files at the Gerald R. Ford
Presidential Library.
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Digitized from Box 43 of the James M. Cannon Files at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library
5PM - Meeting Senator Bob Dole
and Minority Members of Senate Agr.
and Gorestry Commission - Friedersdorf
Monday April 14, 1975
Oval Office - President
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
April 14, 1975
MEETING WITH REPUBLICAN MEMBERS OF
THE SENATE AGRICULTURE COMMITTEE
Monday, April 14, 1975
5:00 p.m. (30 minutes)
The Oval Office
Through: Max L. Friedersdorf
From:
William T. Kendall
m.b.
I. PURPOSE
To meet with five Senators to discuss the pending farm legislation
II. BACKGROUND, PARTICIPANTS & PRESS PLAN
A. Background: Senator Dole called to request a meeting to discuss
the farm bill which is presently in conference. Senator Dole
knows the President is opposed to the bill but wants to talk to the
President about it. Senator Bellmon also called He and Senator
Young feel strongly that the bill does not go far enough. We have
informed all conferees that the President will veto the bill in its
present form.
B. Participants:
Senator Dole
Senator Young
Senator Curtis
Senator Bellmon
Senator Helms
Max Friedersdorf, staff
William Kendall, staff
C. Press Plan: Meeting announced. David Hume Kennerly photo only.
III. TALKING POINTS
1. There is a legitimate concern about farm earnings and food supplies
now that farm prices have receded from record levels, and farm
production costs have mounted. I am concerned. Farmers are
concerned. And you are concerned.
2. Farmers and consumers alike should resist with all their might
any attempt to slide back into the outmoded, thoroughly discredited
farm policies of the past.
3. Farmers and consumers alike need to understand that these former
policies were responsible for the disastrous failures of the past;
that unless we exercise good judgment in resisting a revival of such
policies, we will create an even more disastrous economic failure in
the future.
4. I believe in reasonable earnings for farmers and in reasonable food
prices for consumers. The question is: Will price relationships be
allowed to work themselves out through the intelligent guidance of
millions of decisions made by buyers and sellers daily - or will the
Government decide what farmers' earnings will be and what price
level consumers must pay?
5. If the Government makes the decisions, experience shows that we
will have a cheap food policy that in the long run will serve neither farmers
nor consumers.
6. I am adamantly opposed to disruptive modifications in present agricultural
policy which would rescind the decision-making freedom restored to farmers
by the Agricultural Act of 1970 and strengthened by the Agriculture and
Consumer Protection Act of 1973.