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...Pious Thoughts." All week long L.B.J. kept his blowtorch trained on the negotiators. He had Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz looking over United Steelworkers' President I. W. Abel's shoulder and Commerce Secretary John Connor hovering near Top Management Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper. When that tactic flagged, he sent Wirtz over to hound management and Connor to rile labor. After a breakfast meeting with congressional leaders, he sent them trotting out of the White House clutching conveniently typed statements calling for a settlement. Almost minute by minute he received progress reports from his aides...
...negotiators, spent a full 43 minutes bombarding them with hard statistics and "a few pious thoughts," as he called them. He was in rare form. He flattered both sides, declaring that "Abel is an able fellow and a hard trader, but he has met his match in this fellow Cooper." He assured the industry that, with profits running at an alltime high, it could well afford a reasonable wage boost...
...President immediately pre-empted prime TV time to distribute credit. "All America is grateful to these men you see beside me," said he-though Abel and Cooper looked far too weary to absorb anything as intangible as gratitude. Added Johnson: "The welfare of the American people-the needs of freedom in Viet Nam and in every continent-took precedence over any other consideration or interest or desire." The long, long stalemate, he suggested charitably, had not been "so the union would win, or the companies would win-but that the nation would win. And the American nation...
...Cooper and Conrad took these tribulations in good humor. They listened to Dixieland jazz beamed from Houston-Al Hirt trumpeting Muskrat Ramble, Birth of the Blues, Jada. Houston felt light enough to joke about speculation that Gemini 5 would fall short of its attempt to stay up eight days and have to come down before Sunday. Said Paul Haney, Gemini public affairs chief: "There has been consideration given here to playing Never on Sunday, but it was ruled out as inappropriate." Soon after, Houston cockily played the song...
Grander Goals. Gemini 5 drifted along with one of the two fuel cells shut down to control the water buildup. Asked Cooper: "You think we might make it, huh?" "Looks like it," replied Carnarvon tracking station in Australia. Kraft broke in: "We're sure...