a western union person came up to him with a telegram and it was from franklin roosevelt asking him to be the secretary of agriculture. he came into that position in 1933 when farm prices were at an all-time low when land and soil had eroded from places that should never have been plowed. so there were many, many problems that he had to deal with. so as u.s. secretary of agriculture, he is known for the agriculture adjustment act which was the first time farmers were asked not to produce. they kept producing and kept producing and so prices were going down, down. so they needed to do things in the marketplace that would -- there would be a need for the product. at first people could not believe the things he was proposing regarding that but as prices went up they started to listen to him. people still refer to him today as the genius secretary of agriculture. he led farmers through the horrible time when they did not know where to turn next. they did not have any money. their farms were being lost because of pricing being so low. he was a hero as u.s. secretary of agriculture. in 1940,

wallace was taking a walk and waterworks parks in des moines and western union person came up to him with a telegram and it was from franklin roosevelt asking him to be his secretary of agriculture. he came into that position in 1933 when farm prices were at an all time low, when land, soil had eroded from places that should never have been plowed. there were many problems that he had to deal with. as u.s. secretary of agriculture, he is known for the agricultural adjustment act, which was the first time that farmers were asked not to produce. they kept producing and kept producing and so prices were going down. they needed to do things in the marketplace that would -- that would be a need for the product. at first, people couldn't believe that the things that he was proposing regarding that. then as prices went up, they started to listen to him. people still refer to him today as the genius secretary of agriculture. he led farmers through that horrible time when some of them didn't know where to turn next. they didn't have any money. their farms were being lost and prices because of

person in all this. gorbachev is the one who recognizes, as do others in the soviet union, that the system needs to change. upy need to open the system and adopt a more western ways. socialism is not working. we should never forget that gorbachev did not want the soviet union to end. he was a socialist. how can i save the system? that is really quite crucial. he wanted to open up the system to integrate and ultimately, what is interesting to me, his ideas do we've all, even during the relatively short time he is in office. it is really only six years that it occurs for him. he begins with the notion that he needs to change the system, integrate reforms, open things up within the soviet union. i don't think it is until about 1988, 1989. the u.n. speech is the best public indication of this, when he begins to talk about his vision of a new world order. new world order. it is one in which the soviet union is more integrated with the western europe. this is where he begins the rhetoric, which does not appear until june of 1989 of a common european home. this notion, this rhetoric scares the be jesus out of the americans. are building a home, we are not in it. th