Oral history transcript, Joe Robertson, interview 1 (I), 7/10/1989, by Michael L. Gillette

Incidents involving civil rights leaders Jesse Jackson, Ralph Abernathy, Andy Young, and Marian Edelman; the Agricultural Stabilization Conservation Service (ASCS); Jamie Whitten; Rural Areas Development Service (RADS); Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman's field tours; Cy Smith; response to the CBS documentary, Hunger in America; the staff economist group; a lack of autonomy among cabinet members; undersecretary of agriculture Charlie Murphy; Dorothy Jacobson's appointment as assistant secretary for international programs in the Department of Agriculture; Freeman's and John Schnittker's loyalties to LBJ and John F. Kennedy; White House Fellow Mike Walsh; Robertson's dealings with Resurrection City; Jose Williams; Fannie Lou Hamer; progress made in the Department of Agriculture during Robertson's tenure.