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The gifts were given to Espy while his department was considering poultry-related actions that portended millions of dollars in extra costs to the company.
The 39-count indictment handed down against Espy charged that the former Clinton Secretary of Agriculture solicited and received more than $35,000 in gifts, trips, game tickets and other gratuities from seven companies doing business with Agriculture.
Referring to Espy's own remarks, all the papers raise the question of the ineffectiveness of the OIC by mentioning that the non-conviction took four years and cost $17 million.
Willard Espy, An Almanac of Words at Play, Clarkson N. Potter, New York, 1975.
A scan of the headlines found cheek-by-jowl on the WP 's Page A6 provides an interesting snapshot of the life of the modern Cabinet officer: "[Ex-HUD Secretary] Cisneros's Ex-Mistress Pleads Guilty," "[Labor Secretary] Herman Denies Allegations of Influence-Selling Scheme," and "Two Tyson Foods Executive Indicted Over Gifts to [Ex-Agriculture Secretary] Espy."