Offices and Personnel, 1941 - 1972

The papers contain speeches, statements, testimonies, reports, publications, articles, press releases, interviews, itineraries, and correspondence written on behalf of Secretaries of Agriculture, Under Secretaries of Agriculture, Assistant Secretaries of Agriculture, Deputy Assistant Secretaries of Agriculture, U.S. Presidents, Members of Congress, federal employees (mostly USDA), and private citizens organized into five series:

Series I: Secretaries of Agriculture Series II: Under Secretaries of Agriculture Series III: Assistant Secretaries of Agriculture Series IV: Deputy Assistant Secretaries of Agriculture Series V: Miscellaneous While the bulk of the collection pertains to Secretaries of Agriculture, some well-known figures are represented:

President Harry Truman

President Dwight Eisenhower

President John Kennedy

President Lyndon Johnson

President Richard Nixon

Vice President Hubert Humphrey

Senator Robert Kennedy

Governor Adlai Stevenson

Special Assistant George McGovern

Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Mr. Billy Sol Estes

The arrangement is by hierarchy of position within the USDA and the name of the individual for whom Enzler wrote, then chronologically by year.

Notes:

The term “speeches” is used to describe remarks, addresses, talks, and transcripts. Statements and testimonies tend to be to the U.S. Congress but statements are to the press and non-governmental organizations as well.

While the majority of the material is directly related to the individual in the subseries, there may be some materials mixed in that pertain to Presidents, Congressional staff, USDA staff, and/or private citizens of the time period.

Cross fire notes refers to the notes compiled by Ezra Taft Benson for his book Cross Fire: The Eight Years with Eisenhower which was published in 1962.