** FILE ** In this Oct. 11, 1976, file photo, former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz gestures during a speech to the Associations of Theater Owners and Concessionaires in Anaheim, Calif. Butz, an outspoken U.S. agriculture secretary forced from office in 1976 for making a racist joke and once a dean at Purdue University, died Saturday. He was 98. (AP Photo/Wally Fong, File)