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Jennings Randolph Recognition Project



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A Chronicle of an International Leadership Record:
Jennings Randolph and The Search for Food and Energy Security
(1979-1995)





sponsored by
The Agribusiness Council
in cooperation with
Agri-Energy Roundtable






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Jennings Randolph Recognition Project



Background

The Jennings Randolph Recognition Project (JRRP) was initiated after the June 4, 1998 memorial service in the U.S. Capitol sponsored by The Agribusiness Council (ABC) and hosted by Randolph's former colleague, U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd.  

U.S. Senator Jennings Randolph of West Virignia served in the U.S. Congress over 
five decades before retiring in 1985.  Sworn into office with the New Deal landslide 
and Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1933, Randolph served seven terms in the House 
of Representatives and later was elected to the United States Senate where he completed five terms and became a living legend.  Throughout his legislative career Randolph championed the disabled and "the man and woman by the wayside of 
the road" as well as renewable energy, public works, the environment and aviation/aerospace.  

During his last Senate term Randolph turned his attention to international affairs and pioneered some impressive programs to which his unique style of leadership and senior statesmanship were particularly well-suited.  One initiative, a nonprofit and tax-exempt association called "Agri-Energy Roundtable" (AER), gained U.N. recognition and world acclaim through the Interparliamentary Union.  Another effort, the U.S. Institute of Peace, was signed into law over heavy opposition of the Reagan Administration. 

At a time when food and energy security issues continue to dominate international economic agendas, Randolph's leadership and personal campaign for sustainable trade/development ideas -- forged through ten years of chairing the Agri-Energy Roundtable -- spark new thinking about traditional agriculture and natural resource management.  His action inspired many people around the world, yet has been relatively unexplored.  The record of the Agri-Energy Roundtable, which has continued to develop since Randolph left Washington in 1988, is being evaluated in the context 
of the food/energy nexus and related issues which sparked its formation.  Similarly, Randolph's vision of the role of nonprofit associations, such as AER, is being explored in the wider search for international economic peacekeeping and civility.


Food/Energy Nexus: Improving Dialogue with OPEC

Senator Randolph rejected the confrontational "bushel for a barrel" rhetoric which emerged in the late 1970s when agricultural and energy prices spiralled upwards generating world inflation.  As many Americans, he was concerned with dependence 
on foreign energy, and he endorsed various alternate and renewable energy programs as part of a national strategy to reach greater independence.  But it was Randolph's leadership in the Agri-Energy Roundtable that underscored his fervent desire to build 
bridges between the energy-surplus and agricultural-exporting nations.  The diplomatic "dialogue" approach with OPEC nations, embodied in AER activities, enabled Randolph to advance cooperative agricultural and energy projects with key Third World leaders.  
In 1979, Randolph sponsored a unique, high-level exchange betwen U.S. and Arab leaders which led to the first multilateral roundtable meeting in February 1980 at 
the port city of New Orleans.  Ironically, this came amid the turmoil of the Carter Administration's Soviet grain embargo, and the port was clogged with barges and 
ships as nervous farmers and their worldwide customers wondered about U.S. 
reliability as a food supplier.  Randolph later enlisted corporate support for the AER from leading multinational petroleum and agribusiness firms.

Constrasted to the negative, media-driven political figures of the late 1990s, Randolph represents the best of the "old-school" politicians.  He was an honorable politician whose leadership style, so clearly illustrated in international campaigns, presents 
an important legacy for consideration by today's leaders and future generations.  JRRP's programs and publication highlight aspects of Randolph's endearing nature 
as well as the decisions and skills which made him so effective.


Objectives/Aims

The Jennings Randolph Recognition Project (JRRP) seeks to:

Chronicle, publish and disseminate materials highlighting Jennings Randolph's character and leadership, especially in the areas which are not well-researched (i.e., international affairs);

Identify specific events, legislative campaigns and issues which feature 
     Jennings Randolph's "people power/compassion" style, providing primers 
     on "lessons learned" for young people;

Identfy creative ways to highlight Randolph's many contributions to West Virginia, the United States, and the world;

Develop a database on specific agribultural and energy issues known to be favorites of Jennings Randolph -- and continue disseminating his views/speeches on such issues;

Expose and/or counter any falsehoods which may have been used to obscure Randolph's role in building legislative history;

Identify educational opportunities to promulgate examples of Randolph's character and virtues to young people;

Assist other organizations which espouse Randolph's views and/or share Randolph's priority aims as a great American populist; 

Assist the official biographer in developing information on Randolph's international contributions;

Assist Salem-Teikyo University (STU) in organizing, preserving and protecting all of the Randolph papers and other documentation presently stored there to insure future generations have access to the historical record.


Historical Education and Leadership: JR's Footprints on the 20th Century

As we enter the twilight months of the 20th century, there is growing nostalgia and interest in remembering history's milestones.  Randolph's life spanned each decade, and he figured significantly during his legislative prime (1933-1985) in Washington, benefitting many.  

The Jennings Randolph Recognition Project (JRRP) is generating positive benefits 
for historians and students interested in an intriguing case study of how one senior legislator demonstrated leadership on a world stage with a complex weave of issues providing "a window" on his times.  

The JRRP is achieving its objectives through standard research techniques -- file and correspondence review, interviews with former colleagues and staff as well as those who served with Randolph on the AER board of directors, conference speeches by Randolph and conversation memoranda between JR and industrial/political leaders from around the world -- with interpretive analysis provided by AER/ABC staff who worked with Randolph.

Randolph's interest in the AER model reflected his own complex interests from 
high technology to alleviating hunger and malnutrition.  The story of AER and 
Jennings Randolph has been chronicled, and its lessons will influence future Congressional and Executive Branch cooperation, understanding the potential 
of voluntary/nongovernmental organizations and associations in U.N.-related 
programs (i.e., food security), food/energy issues within an effective North/South dialogue, the role of enlightened private enterprise in the development of agro-food systems, and renewable energy as a key for sustainable agro-food development.

The JRRP publication serves as a guide during a critical timeframe in world history when individuals and institutions are seeking new ways of cooperating to solve 
the dilemma of world food security in the 21st century.  The document highlights 
an important contemporary leader and his ideas at a time when leadership is needed.


Farm Issues and Agribusiness Concentration

Jennings Randolph was actively engaged in agricultural/rural development issues 
across his career beginning in the depths of the Great Depression and the New Deal.
For example, he helped pioneer important "back to the farm" projects in West Virginia which renewed hope and food production in the Tygart Valley.

In today's farm crisis, Randolph's spirit and early work still resonate.  He fought for 
the small producers and reminded audiences to "remember the man and woman 
by the wayside in the road."  In some respects, JRRP dovetails these themes with 
the formation of the West Virginia Agribusiness Council (WV/ABC) and similar groups
around the country as a response to the growing concentration of America's agro-food system.  This system has provided many efficiencies which are the envy of the world
-- and yet, serious distortions and inequities are being created.

In his last term in the Senate, Randolph resisted pressures from subsidy-seeking 
"big agribusiness," and his international outreach program (AER) seemed to threaten certain interests vested in maintaining the status quo.  Randolph's grassroots model provided a cross-sectoral dialogue and a cooperative forum for problem-solving on
food-systems issues.  This framework produced a "big picture" perspective.

The resultant search for "common denominator" solutions actually jeopardized
the plans of agribusiness tycoons whose profiteering depended, in part, on tight
control and compartmentalizing of ag/food sectors while corrupting key governmental agencies and elected officials.

In March 1999, 23 senators wrote to President Clinton concerning concentration issues within the agribusiness sector.  In the following November, legislation which would have imposed a moratorium on large mergers int he ag/food system was defeated 71-27.  The U.S. Congress is continuing to focus on improved antitrust enforcement for agribusiness.  As usual, Jennings Randolph was prescient in his understanding of
what was happening -- not just for West Virginia, but also the wider world.  ABC materials on this subject, including a speech discussed with Jennings Randolph 
in St. Louis shortly before his death, have been widely distributed in Congress.


Randolph Genealogy: Another Honorable Mention

In November 1999, at Shepherd College, JRRP announced some newly discovered genealogical links between Jennings Randolph and his ancestors, including CSA 
Lt. General James Longstreet, who was General Lee's most trusted subordinate.  Longstreet was a distant cousin of Randolph, as both descended from Edmund 
Fitz-Randolph, but shared only a short time-window of life with each other (1902-04).
Like Randolph, Longstreet spoke truth to power -- and he struggled for national reconciliation after the Civil War. 

Both men suffered greatly in their later years, as the spinners of "political correctness" tried to airbrush their lives and accomplishments from memory.  Longstreet, a visionary tactician who understood military technology and rendered open-field/frontal assaults futile, was unfairly blamed for the Confederate loss at Gettysburg.  Seventy years later, Randolph was ridiculed in Congress while fighting for an aeronautical navy (i.e., aircraft carriers vs. battleships).  

For further information, see ABC's Heritage Preservation Committee (HPC) and General Longstreet Recognition Project (GLRP).


Lecture/Slide Presentation Programs

JRRP has sparked a flurry of activities expanding awareness of and interest in Jennings Randolph.  Since the memorial dinner on the first anniversary of his 
death, JRRP has conducted programs including reunions for historical, agricultural, university and senior groups.  For example, JRRP spoke to the Cherry River Navy Admirals in Richwood, had discussions in the WV Senate with President Earl Ray Tomblin and others in Charleston, and completed that week of campaigning with 
an outdoor presentation for the Civilian Conservation Corps at Camp Woodbine followed by a meeting a Marshall University in Huntington and a gathering of friends 
in Elkins for Margaret Walsh's 96th birthday.  More recently, JRRP has addressed audiences at the Romney Senior Center, George Mason University's Institute for
Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Shepherd College, WV Senior Community 
Service Employees Program, and Stonewall Jackson Civil War Roundtable.

With the approach of Election 2000, young people seem particularly interested in Randolph's leadership style, his decency and humility.  The JRRP campaign for citizenship education will continue honoring "The Father of the 26th Amendment" 
by reminding audiences that Jennings Randolph's persistence made it possible 
for 18-21 year-olds to vote.  His views are indeed gaining traction among students 
who could be a significant factor at the polls.

JRRP media coverage has been excellent, and newsclips are available.


Financial Support

The Jennings Randolph Recognition Project is grateful to a growing list of benefactors:

	U.S. Senator Brock Adams			Admiral Thomas Moorer (ret)
	Stevensville, Maryland				Bethesda, Maryland
						
	Betsy Amin-Arsala				Nancy Morrison				
	Bloomery, West Virginia			Huntington, West Virginia

	Patricia C. Berger				James A. Norman
	Brockton, Massachusetts			Mount Clare, West Virginia

	Bondex International 				R.C. Powell			
	St. Louis, Missouri				Highlands Ranch, Colorado

	President Jimmy Carter				Gustavo de los Reyes Delgado
	Plains, Georgia					Miami, Florida

	Edwin I. Colodny				L. Wayne Sheets 			
	Naples, Florida					Elkins, West Virginia

	Dorothy U. Davis				Suzanne Snedegar
	Salem, West Virginia				Bethesda, Maryland

	Chief Joseph Esema				Daniel F. Snell				
	Calabar, Nigeria				Petersburg, West Virginia

	Ruth Patricia Griffith				W. Clement Stone
	Clarksburg, West Virginia			Chicago, Illinois

	E. Davisson Hardman				U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond
	Clarksburg, West Virginia			Columbia, South Carolina

	James H. Harless				U.S. Senator Joseph D. Tydings (ret)
	Gilbert, West Virginia				Chevy Chase, Maryland




	U.S. Senator Mark O. Hatfield (ret)		Hon. Cyrus R. Vance		
	Portland, Oregon				New York, New York

	U.S. Senator Jesse Helms			Margaret Walsh			
	Raleigh, North Carolina				Elkins, West Virginia

	Nicholas E. Hollis				Hays T. Watkins
	Washington, DC				Richmond, Virginia

	U.S. Senator Walter Huddleston (ret)		Bruce G. Wells		
	Elizabethtown, Kentucky			Clarksburg, West Virginia

	Marion Jennings 				West Virginia AFL-CIO
	Randolph, Vermont				Charleston, West Virginia

	Mary S. Jones					West Virginia Agribusiness Council
	Elkins, West Virginia				Clarksburg, West Virginia

	George C. Lazar				Senator Eugene Whelan
	Verona, Pennsylvania				Ottawa, Canada

	Marion and Joe McQuade			Margaret Wilson Young			
	Oak Hill, West Virginia				Clarksburg, West Virginia



"Leadership Education and Character Development through Historical Scholarship"


Contributions to the Jennings Randolph International Recognition Project 
are tax-deductible under IRS Code 501(c)(3) with checks made payble to:

 THE AGRIBUSINESS COUNCIL, INC.
1312 Eighteenth Street NW, Suite 300
Washington, DC 20036
Tel: (202) 887-0238
Fax: (202) 887-9178

(click for e-mail contact)



In West Virginia, inquiries may be directed to:

West Virginia Agribusiness Council
Route 1, Box 200
Clarksburg, WV 26301
Tel/Fax: (304) 622-8000

(click for e-mail contact)


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