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...American Civil Liberties Union makes eleven charges; the AFL-CIO lists 19, and a public-interest law group, concentrating solely on criminal charges, lists "28 violations of law" committed by the President "or by persons answerable to him." Some of these lists give the impression of piling on charges, so that if one does not stick, another will. There are four mam categories to consider, of which the last two are the more compelling...
...seen as a bellwether for November's balloting, both parties trotted out some of their big names to join the campaign-Vice President Gerald Ford for Fox, Senators Henry Jackson, Walter Mondale, Edmund Muskie and Joseph Biden for Murtha. In addition, Murtha was heavily supported by various AFL-CIO political organizations whose leaders were hoping to post a first score in George Meany's four-month-old campaign to make life increasingly more difficult for President Nixon...
...appears unmoved by the financial toll that the strike is taking of his company. A nationwide boycott of Farah products, backed by the AFL-CIO and strongly endorsed by the bishop of El Paso, the Most Rev. Sidney M. Metzger, has bitten deeply into sales, despite a high-priced TV advertising campaign featuring athletes wearing Farah pants...
...Prowl. As the Congressmen returned to the House last week, they came under pressure from lobbyists on both sides of the issue of impeachment, the most powerful by far being AFL-CIO President George Meany, who is now dead set against the President he helped elect in 1972. If Nixon does not resign, Meany wants him impeached and tried. The American people, he says, "have a right to know whether or not their President is a liar...
...hooked. This M. Stanton Evans who had somehow gotten my name on his mailing list had more to tell me. Putting my readings aside, I continued: "While taxpaying conservatives are hard at work earning a living, an army of left-wing agitators, radical legal services lawyers, AFL-CIO lobbyists, Common Cause publicists, tax-exempt Naderites, ACLU attorneys and countless others swarm through the Nation's Capital--pressuring, harassing, demanding...