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...strong support of liberal positions on gun control, open housing, aid to American Indians and civil rights has earned him a 100% rating from the AFL-CIO Committee on Political Education. His ratings from the liberal Americans for Democratic Action average 90%. Those same political stands earned Kennedy some of the lowest marks for any legislator from the conservative Americans for Constitutional Action. At the same time his strong opposition to key White House proposals?the ABM, the SST, the Carswell and Haynsworth Supreme Court nominations?has won him the Administration's unfailing hostility. Nixon's Director of Communications, Herb...
...Harbour's Americana Hotel last week was nervous, and he showed it in a shaky voice and several misplaced words. Richard Nixon had good reason to feel a bit of stage fright, since the rostrum from which he spoke faced some 2,000 delegates to the AFL-CIO convention, which had just adopted a resolution severely critical of his new economic plan. In a speech that excoriated Nixon's basic sense of economic justice, AFL-CIO President George Meany had gloweringly shouted that "if the President of the United States doesn't want our membership...
...CIO delegates showed their hostility to Nixon in other ways than the resolution. They accorded him one of the most discourteous welcomes in the recent annals of presidential ceremony. The band was ordered not to strike up Hail to the Chief, the President's customary entry flourish, and Meany introduced the President with a few perfunctory words. Nixon went out of his way to appear conciliatory by recalling the hardhat marches of 18 months ago. "When the intellectuals were protesting, 150,000 workers marched down Wall Street to support me," he said. "I want you to know that...
...President than they claim to be. But just as union negotiators must make villains of management-even after they get a settlement satisfactory to their members-so Meany & Co. must keep up the fiction of fighting Phase II. In his keynote address, the 77-year-old AFL-CIO boss put on a sometimes tasteless show of personal invective. The 15-member Pay Board, he claimed, is a "stacked deck" against labor, and its president, retired Federal Judge George Boldt, "doesn't know a damn thing...
...most liberal leaders have made a startling turnabout and put their powerful clout behind openly protectionist legislation in Congress. The recent converts include the electrical workers, the rubber workers and the machinists. Their feelings were vented at length and with loudness at last week's AFL-CIO convention. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers passed out pamphlets showing a man wearing imported clothes and headlined: HOW TO DRESS FOR A DEPRESSION. Banners strung up at Bal Harbour's Hotel Americana urged union members...