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...battle opened head-on at the A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in Bal Harbour, Fla. A week after the encounter, pundits were still busy retracing the maneuverings of these two seasoned infighters. The President staged the first surprise. Though he had been routinely invited to attend two months before, he did not accept until the eve of the convention two weeks ago. George Shultz called Meany to ask if Nixon could address the delegates the next day. Impossible, replied the labor boss. The executive council had scheduled a meeting to vote on a resolution of noncooperation with the Pay Board. Nixon would...
...other with homiletic eloquence. Organized labor has been as cordial to Nixon as to any Republican President in memory, backing him particularly on the war and on law-and-order. But Nixon took the calculated risk of appearing before the biennial convention of the AFL-CIO in Bal Harbour, Fla., a day after it had instructed the labor members of the Pay Board not to cooperate in forming Phase II wage guidelines (see THE ECONOMY). President George Meany even refused a White House request to have Hail to the Chief accompany Nixon's entrance. During the speech, some...
...speaker on the dais of Bal 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...
...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...
...talk, you old bastard?" Yet he could never completely shake his waxen image as "the bridegroom on the wedding cake." He was still widely remembered that way when he died last week of a heart attack after playing 18 holes of golf in the 90° heat of Bal Harbour, Fla., his favorite winter refuge. In another week he would have been...