Preview
Publisher
Grand Forks Herald
Identification #
OGLMC 390
Creation Date
5-1-1966
Description
Cartoon depicts "Freeman" running from "Farmer's Union," a rolling pin, which is being thrown at him. Criticism increased regarding President Lyndon B. Johnson's administrative farm price policy. The National Farmers Union issued a statement changing the administration with further discrimination against America's already underpaid family farmers in an effort to lower consumer food prices.
Subject
Cartoons (Commentary); Political cartoons
Places Depicted
United States
People Depicted
Freeman, Orville L.; Johnson, Lyndon B. (Lyndon Baines), 1908-1973
Rights
Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota
Keywords
Farmers Union, Agriculture, Farm Policy, Lyndon B. Johson, United States, Orville L. Freeman, Secretary of Agriculture, American Farm Bureau Association, Farm law, Agriculture--Economic aspects, Farmers, Cooking utensils, Discrimination, Running, Food prices