Summary: Brandon Fortune, curator at NPG, discusses a sculpture of Henry Wallace by Jo Davidson. On becoming Franklin Roosevelt's secretary of agriculture in 1933, Wallace told reporters that if he could not help the nation's Depression-ridden farmers, he would "go back home and raise corn." Wallace developed the controversial policy of limiting production, paying farmers to destroy crops and slaughter livestock. He became Roosevelt's running mate in 1940 but was dropped from the ticket in 1944. NPG curator Brandon Fortune discussed this bronze bust of Henry Wallace, by Jo Davidson. You can see this portrait in the "Twentieth-Century Americans" exhibition on the museum's third floor. Recorded at NPG, October 9, 2008. Image info: Henry Agard Wallace / Jo Davidson,1942 / Bronze/National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; gift of Mrs. Jean Wallace Douglas, Robert Wallace, and Henry B. Wallace
