Date: April 13, 1971
Time: 4:40 pm - 4:47 pm
Location: White House Telephone
The President talked with Gen. George A. Lincoln.
[See Conversation No. 247-4D]
Texas drought assistance
-President's conversation with John B. Connally
Connally talked with Lincoln at an unknown time.
Texas drought assistance
-Lincoln's conversation with Clifford M. Hardin
-Conditions
-Hardin's grain program
-Need for hay
-Government payment for fodder transportation
-Historical analogy
-Connally's personal situation
-Hay problem
-Department of Agriculture's search for hay
-Problems with previous hay programs
-Allegations
-Lincoln's conversation with Hardin
-Possible involvement of private sector
-Price of hay in Virginia
-Transportation costs
-Opinion in Texas
-Necessity for additional money
-Options
-Emergency loans
-Opening of grazing land
-Need for additional money
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