Book Launch | Rhymes with Fighter: Clayton Yeutter, American Statesman

Book release of "Rhymes with Fighter: Clayton Yeutter, American Statesman," by Joseph Weber, a biography of the native Nebraskan who rose to work for four U.S. presidents, serving in two cabinets as U.S. Trade Representative and Agriculture Secretary. Featuring a discussion with the author and USTR alumni Darci Vetter and Warren Maruyama on Yeutter’s impact and the future of global trade. About the book | From a hardscrabble childhood in the Great Depression on the dusty plains of rural Nebraska, Clayton Yeutter (1930–2017) rose to work for four U.S. presidents, serving in the cabinets of two of them. His challenge, posed by one of President Ronald Reagan’s aides, was this: go and change the world. As U.S. trade representative he did just that, opening the global trading arena with bold efforts that led to NAFTA, the creation of the World Trade Organization, and extraordinary growth in cross-border business. Today’s global trading regime began with Yeutter. https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496230126/