Word: fitz
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Open Door. A humble servant to Hoffa all through his labor life, a man whom AFL-CIO President George Meany had called a puppet, Fitz suddenly leaned back in Jimmy's big white chair in the Teamsters' marble palace in Washington and decided that he liked the feel of the job. More important, President Nixon liked Fitz in the job. Seeking labor support for his reelection, the President dropped by a Teamsters executive board meeting in Miami Beach that June of 1971 to pay his respects to the new boss personally. Said Nixon: "My door is always open...
...good-will gesture to the Teamsters, Nixon commuted Hoffa's sentence in December 1971-almost six months after Fitz took over-but only on one condition: Hoffa could not "engage in the direct or indirect management of any labor organization" until March...
After this "favor" to Jimmy, Fitz led the Teamsters into a formal endorsement of Nixon for President last year. Nixon nominated him to the board...
COMSAT. Mrs. Fitzsimmons was put on the board of an advisory committee at the Kennedy Center. When all the other labor leaders walked off the President's Pay Board, Fitz stayed on. And when Nixon dropped Labor Secretary James Hodgson, Fitz was immediately called and offered the job. He declined...
...ends next month, and he is now hoping that the legal restrictions on his union activities will be dropped, either by presidential pardon or by a direct challenge in court. If he succeeds, he might easily win back the Teamsters presidency, and that prospect does not particularly please either Fitz or the Nixon Administration. Said one labor observer: "Hoffa is too unpredictable...