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The United States Secretary of Agriculture from 1981-1986, John "Jack" Block tells the story of how he rose from a one-room schoolhouse to the White House. Tapped by Ronald Reagan to serve on his Cabinet, Block guided the USDA through one of the most tumultuous and devastating times in recent history for the American farmer: the farm crisis of the 1980s.

Within a month of becoming president, the issue of Communist Cuba became central to John F. Kennedy. On February 3, 1961, President Kennedy called for a plan to support Cuban refugees. A month later, he created the Peace Corps, a program that trained young American volunteers to help with economic and community development in poor countries. Both programs were attempts to align disadvantaged groups against the Soviet Union and its communist satellites. Meanwhile, covert operations were laying the groundwork for overthrowing Fidel Castro.