SECRETARIES OF AGRICULTURE 

 Clinton Anderson 



The only ones I really knew were Henry Wallace, 

 Claude Wickard, Charles Brannan and Clinton Anderson . 

 Of these, Anderson was far-and-away the tops. He 

 is a man of great force of character, keen insight 

 and high courage. We always knew he expected high- 

 quality performance and we also knew he would 

 support us when we were right. At one time he 

 offered to pay five thousand dollars to any desig 

 nated charity if one of his New Mexico friends, 

 a grazing permittee hostile to the Service, could 

 prove an allegation he made against the Service. 

 It was not proven! 



Henry Wallace 



Henry Wallace was a man hard to know. He left 

 most of the contacts with the Forest Service 



to Paul Appleby,who was not very friendly. We 

 heard rumors at one time, when Clapp was Acting 



