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...Nixon staff, confident that the willingness to release the tapes had taken the steam out of the impeachment drive, was dismayed to find that criticism of the President continued. The drastic reversals in policy by Nixon even seemed to worry some critics anew. In a particularly unkind cut, AFL-CIO President George Meany not only said that his union still wanted Nixon out of office, but added: "The events of the last several days prove the dangerous emotional instability of the President." The White House felt obliged to dignify this with a reply. Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren called...
...tomorrow because it's going to be bad. This whole week is going to be bad, and I don't want you to worry about it. I know what I'm doing and I'm doing the right thing.' " She simply laughs off AFL-CIO President George Meany's charge that the President is suffering "dangerous emotional instability." Says she: "It's so absurd...
...diverse group of active AFL-CIO members, retired garment workers, socialists and students chanted "Viva la huelga!" and sang "Solidarity Forever" as they distributed boycott information to throngs of weekend shoppers who gathered on Tremont, Washington and Winter...
...weeks of difficult negotiations with himself, 49-year-old W.J. ("Bill") Usery Jr. has decided to throw his hat into the ring alongside those of all the other labor leaders who are hoping to succeed 79-year-old George Meany as head of the roughly 14 million-member AFL-CIO. Usery will leave his $40,000-a-year post as President Nixon's chief labor negotiator and director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service-from which an appointment as Secretary of Labor might have been easy to grasp. As head of the AFL-CIO'S newly created...
...bargainer who often appealed to negotiators' patriotism. Usery was instrumental in averting a walkout of 13,000 railroad signalmen in 1969 and later settled a bitter, eleven-week teachers' strike in Philadelphia. In directing and coordinating the political, civil rights and community-affairs activities of the AFL-CIO'S extensive field staffs, he is expected to wield enormous influence within the labor movement. His lack of a solid power base within the AFL-CIO, however, may block his advance if Meany steps down in the near future...