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THE USDA YEARS
photos of Lester R. Brown
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Just starting at the Foreign Agricultural Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture as an international agricultural analyst, 1959-69
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Lester’s first book, published November 1963
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The issue that launched Lester’s analysis in Man, Land and Food and brought him to the attention of Orville Freeman, the Secretary of Agriculture.
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Lester second book, published April 1965
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Cable Lester sent to Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman to notify him of an impending famine in India due to a countrywide drought. This cable—and that Freeman took it seriously—mobilized the United States to ship 10 million tons of wheat to India and thus averted a famine. It also enabled the U.S. to put pressure on India to change their agricultural policies, which Lester was instrumental in drafting.
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With Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman in early 1966 at the White House for a Sunday night meeting on the food crisis in India.
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The Manhattan tanker was commissioned for grain relief in India, serving as a port in the Bay of Bengal since India did not have a large enough port to handle the grain shipments. Small boats, dhows, offloaded grain and moved it up the Ganges River and its tributaries to the most drought-effected areas.
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Lester with President Lyndon Johnson and several other Outstanding Young Men in Federal Service awardees, 1965
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Lester bring congratulated by President Lyndon Johnson in the Oval Office on receiving the Ten Outstanding Young Men in Federal Service award, 1965
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Administrator, International Agricultural Development Service, 1966-69. Lester was responsible for managing agricultural programs in some forty countries, and, at 32, he was the youngest agency head in government.
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