Brooke Rollins: “Abraham Lincoln founded the U.S. department of Agriculture…”

“And now that I have the tremendous honor of being in the cabinet of the president and leading the American people's own department, Abraham Lincoln founded the U.S. department of Agriculture with the idea that the people needed their own department. That now my message in the second term for this president and as a member of his cabinet, is to finish the job. And what a job it is.” (14:55–15:02)

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