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Earl Butz (1909-2008) was a Republican official who served as the secretary of agriculture under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He implemented policies that favored large-scale corporate farming and ended New Deal programs, and resigned after making racist and offensive remarks.
Feb 4, 2008 · Earl L. Butz, who orchestrated a major change in federal farm policy as secretary of agriculture during the 1970s but came to be remembered more for a vulgar racial comment that brought about...
Feb 3, 2008 · Earl L. Butz, the outspoken U.S. Agriculture secretary forced from office in 1976 for making a racist joke, died Saturday morning. He was 98.
Feb 5, 2008 · He’d provided crucial testimony against the Nixon White House in the Watergate scandal, and it happened that he was working on a piece about the convention for Rolling Stone. Butz knew this, but...
Feb 3, 2008 · WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) Former Agriculture Secretary Earl L. Butz, who was forced from office in 1976 after making a racial joke and was once a dean at Purdue University, died Saturday. He...
Feb 2, 2008 · WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Earl L. Butz, an outspoken U.S. agriculture secretary forced from office in 1976 for making a racist joke and once a dean at Purdue University, died Saturday. He was 98.
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Feb 4, 2008 · Earl Butz served under Nixon and Ford and reduced federal subsidies for farmers. He also made a racist remark that led to his resignation in 1976.