Rhymes with fighter : Clayton Yeutter, American statesman / Joseph Weber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weber, Joseph (Professor of journalism), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Yeutter, Clayton K., 1930-2017.

Yeutter, Clayton K.

Nebraska--Biography.

Nebraska.

United States. Department of Agriculture--Officials and employees--Biography.

United States.

Statesmen--United States--Biography.

Statesmen.

Cabinet officers--United States--Biography.

Cabinet officers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, [2021]

Summary:

"From a hardscrabble childhood in the Great Depression on the dusty plains of rural Nebraska, Clayton Yeutter (1930-2017) rose to work for four U.S. presidents, serving in the cabinets of two of them. His challenge, posed by one of President Ronald Reagan's aides, was this: go and change the world. As U.S. trade representative he did just that, opening the global trading arena with bold efforts that led to NAFTA, the creation of the World Trade Organization, and extraordinary growth in cross-border business. Today's global trading regime began with Yeutter. A distinguished lawyer with a doctorate in economics, Yeutter also had deep business experience leading the giant futures trading organization, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, now called the CME Group. But he never forgot his family's farm roots, and those roots led him to another top job as President George H. W. Bush's secretary of agriculture. Yeutter's intellectual firepower, paired with an engaging personality and a midwesterner's beaming smile, made friends and found common ground with leaders and trade officials worldwide. Although a loyal GOP leader who served as counselor to a president and head of the Republican National Committee, Yeutter was a moderate who had admirers on both sides of the aisle. This is his life story. "-- Provided by publisher.

"This biography tells the life story of Nebraska native Clayton Yeutter (1930-2017), whose accomplishments in international trade, agriculture, and economics are still very prominent in today's world"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Rugged times

The Clayton grin

More self-help

Character flaws

Free farmers

Juicy, cornfed Nebraska sirloin

Our fellow man

macho man of trade

Saving a major industry

We barely survived

No professional Machiavellian

A second chance

The world will thank you.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781496230300

1496230302

9781496230126

1496230124

OCLC:

1272989885