Jeff Roche
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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And this goes on for a decade.
The change comes when the federal government begins to talk less about relief and recovery and more about reform.
So there's an organization within the New Deal, it doesn't last very long, called the Resettlement Administration.
And they start talking about planned economies and state control over agriculture.
And they'll tell you what you can plan and when you can't plan.
And that's really when the seeds have sort of
distrust of federal programs and a powerful federal government are planted, I think, within the minds of a lot of people in that part of the world and other parts of the agriculture and farming America.
So one of the great joys of really working at the grassroots is you discover, you know, the unexpected, I don't want to say protagonist, but you uncover unexpected things.
Characters in the narrative.
And I originally knew about J.F.
Attali as a historian rather than necessarily an activist.
I had read, he wrote a fantastic biography of Charles Goodnight.
He came out in 36 and he'd written a history of the XIT ranch.
And I had read these, I'd read both these books, you know, like in high school or maybe early college.
And so I knew him like literally as a historian of that region and a historian of the cattle business.
So when I started on the project, that's when I discovered him as a political activist and an organizer and an ideologue.
So he operates on a lot of different kinds of levels.
He's a media figure.
He's a scholar.
But he's also very much involved in party politics and politics.
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