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Conversation No. 493-7

Date: May 6, 1971
Time: 10:28 am - 10:58 am
Location: Oval Office

The President met with Clifford M. Hardin and Dr. Norman E. Borlaug
[Recording begins while the conversation is in progress]

Agricultural programs
-US programs abroad
-Purdue University, Michigan State University
-Program in the Philippines
-Work

Clark MacGregor, H[arold] R[oyce] Gross, and Jack R. Miller entered at 10:30 am

Greetings

Photo

Hogs

Des Moines Register
Gifts for President
-National Pork Producers’ Council
-Location
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-May 7, 1971 dinner

Foreign programs

Members of the press entered at an unknown time after 10:30 am

Hogs

[Camera noise]

Hogs

Members of the press left at an unknown time before 10:58 am

Hogs
-Farm Bureau

Agricultural programs
-US programs abroad
-Borlaug
-Nobel Prize acceptance speech
-US role
-Production
-India, Pakistan, Brazil, Spain
-US
-India
-Japan
-US exports
-India
-Japan
-Taiwan
-Foreign aid
-Food for peace
-Teaching efforts
-Results
-Foreign Students at land-grant colleges
-Length of stay
-Mexico
-State Department
-Teaching efforts
-Length of stay
-Conversations with Dr. John A. Hannah
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-Congress

Agricultural programs
-Foreign aid
-Private foundations
-John D. Rockefeller, Henry E. Ford, II
-Dr. [Forename unknown] Malone
-Work Conv. No. 493-7 (cont.)
-Rockefeller, Ford
-Work
-Workers
-A worker in Central America
-Michigan State University, Iowa State University, Purdue
University
-Ethiopia
-A college
-Workers
-Peace Corps
-Motivation
-Latin America
-Education
-Resettlement
-Missionaries
-Colombia
-Michigan State University program
-Hannah, George Ferrara
-Results
-Bogota program
-Results
-National University at Deeka
-University of Nebraska
-Local involvement
-Personnel needs
-Mexico
-Personnel needs
-Work
-Length of program
-National Agricultural Research Institute of Mexico
-Graduate education
-A Pakistani worker
-Beirut experience
-Food and Agriculture Organization [FAO]
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-Middle East, Northern Africa, and Latin America
-Personnel needs
-Education and training
-FAO
-Mexico
-Training
-FAO
-Population control Conv. No. 493-7 (cont.)
-John F. Kennedy
-Developing nations
-Food supply
-Outlook
-Food supply
-Needs
-Mohammed Ayub Khan
-Position on food and population
-Health
-Position on food and population
-Election
-A smallpox epidemic
-Position on population control
-US aid
-People’s Republic of China [PRC]
-Food supply
-Bengal, US
-Latin America
-Caracas, Venezuela
-Mexico
-New President’s position
-Growth rate
-President’s population message
-An unknown man’s experience

Gifts from President
-Cuff links

A Mexican driver

Gifts
-Cufflinks

Borlaug’s accomplishments
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Hogs

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President’s May 7, 1971 dinner

Borlaug’s accomplishments Conv. No. 493-7 (cont.)

[General conversation]

Hardin, et al. left at 10:58 am