Down to the plains from the top of the mountain inspired the poetry and inspired the images that are captured in that poetry of the United States. Watch all of our events from Colorado Springs throughout the andon cspan 2s book tv, sunday on American History tv on cspan 3. Formeror agricultural secretary dan glickman discusses Food Security. Topics include past agriculture issues and the types of action that could be taken in future to improve food supply, access, and sanitation. From the Johns Hopkins school of advanced international studies, this is a little more than an hour. Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Im bob thompson, visiting scholar here working to develop a problem in agriculture and a program in agriculture and Food Security. Teaching a couple courses in that area. Im delighted that in continuing our seminar in International Agriculture topics that today we have former secretary of agriculture dan glickman here to talk about Food Security and government dysfunction. Ca
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Way. Whereas the house of representatives may have about 40 or 50 members that are predominantly Food Production represents Food Production districts. Every United States senator represents at least some Food Production. That includes from the smallest states of rhode island and delaware to, of course, the largest states. And historically, those interests were dominated from people by the midwest and the heartland states. So illinois, indiana, missouri, my own state of kansas. And the midwest, up through the dakotas. And states in the south where you had members of congress and especially members of the United States who were elected forever. They accumulated great amounts of power, and they were able to influence the political process rather significantly so the states of mississippi, which was one state that had accumulated a large amount of power over the years. But all of the southern states, georgia, south carolina, north carolina, called the southern crops had very, very powerful
Todays panel on the crises of the 1970s. So we have a great panel today. I am going to just start up i talk a little bit about what how we kind of framed this panel and how we are hoping what we are hoping to accomplish. We have the roundtable intensely. We are each want to speak about 10 minutes. Just a few roof remarks about the literature on the 1970s and thinking about the 1970s and what this unique time means to us today. And then we would like to open it up for a lot of conversation both with each other and most importantly with the audience. So we will be sticking to a pretty tight time and hopefully having a lot of time for comp for conversation. One of the things we were thinking about was the central role of the idea of crisis in thinking about the 1970s, both in the contemporary clinical imagination of a time and also in historical scholarship. From watergate to the energy crisis, the urban crisis, a fiscal crisis, the rhetoric of the era is huge with extensive danger and hi