A Full Life: Reflections At Ninety - Plot & Excerpts
When I was preparing to leave the White House I learned that, because of inept management and three years of severe drought, we had accumulated a very large debt, with no business assets to be used for payment. I was afraid we might lose our farmland and even endanger ownership of our home, but fortunately Archer Daniels Midland Company decided to enter the peanut business and bought Carter’s Warehouse for almost as much as we owed. We retained the farmland on which peanuts, cotton, soybeans, grain, and pine trees still grow. I phased out my duties as an active farmer and have relied on partners or renters who have modern equipment for planting, cultivating, and harvesting the fields. We still enjoy caring for the timberland, while consulting with an expert forester. One decision I made before leaving Washington was to write a memoir of my presidential years. I examined the voluminous diary notes I had dictated in the Oval Office and found that they comprised twenty-one volumes and more than a million words.
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