Jeff Roche
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 20 Dec
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And he goes to work for them.
And he writes an MA thesis while he's there.
He goes to work for the Texas Centennial Exposition.
And at this point, he's 35 by now.
And he's writing books.
Texas history for all kinds of different publications.
And he's got all sorts of public talks about Texas history and he's becoming nice.
He is.
He is the leading expert on the cattle business in Texas and the West Texas frontier.
And then he's, this is the 19, by now we're into the, we're into the mid 1930s.
And he's going, he's still collecting, he's still going off and doing interviews.
And now he's starting to talk to the old timers more and more about politics.
And they are very uncomfortable with the new deal.
And when the cattle killing program starts, and I'm not going to go into too much details, but basically ranchers had avoided becoming part of the agricultural adjustment program.
programs to to limit production but the job eventually forces them into it and haley's got to go back home and take part in a program where he has to kill cattle on his family's ranch and get paid by the federal government and his whole world is turned upside down this is um
For him, ranching was the pinnacle of a free enterprise system.
These were men who asked no quarter, gave none, made their way in a harsh landscape, and now the federal government is protecting them.
So he writes this piece for the Saturday Evening Post, the monkey business and the cattle business.
And it's a pretty solid description of some of the logical fallacies that are behind some of these programs, but also how they violate what he thought was the code that governed West Texas debt.
Yeah.
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