[Dan Evans]

...a large shortage of grain in the USSR developed. ... The US government panicked, their Cheap Food Program in jeopardy.

I remember that, but I didn't know that the feds had voided the contracts. What was the constitutional authority?

[Balding_Eagle]

I don’t remember just how that all went, I just remember getting the rug pulled out from under me and everyone else.

I had only a passing interest in politics at the time.