Oral history transcript, Lester R. Brown, interview 1 (I), 11/4/1968, by T.H. Baker

Biographical information; not active in partisan politics; Indian food crisis; PL 480; self-help concept; differences with AID on emphasis of priority; operating under State Department's budget; improvement of Vietnamese agriculture; defoliants; work with military; obstacle to rapid development of agriculture in underdeveloped nations; caliber of people he worked with in foreign countries; training program; encouragement of American investment in factories producing agricultural equipment overseas; manpower problem; land ownership patterns; AID annual review of development program; invitations to social occasions at White House; impressions of LBJ at staff meetings; knowledge of agricultural problems; staffing and overseas nutrition program