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polistra's avatar

Amen. De-butz it and re-HenryWallacize it!

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James M. Decker's avatar

Agreed! If you look across the landscape of Agriculture Secretaries, Butz and Wallace were undoubtedly the most impactful, to very very different ends.

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Thomas L. Hutcheson's avatar

The description of the town sounds very much like Athens Texas where I grew up, down to the kind of manufacturing. Today it is little bigger but revolves around some ranching and tourism/second homes from Dallas

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Mark Hargrove's avatar

The “how” part of this is a real mind-bender.

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