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...George Meany sputtered a pledge of non-allegiance to the Democratic Party, "because they can't deliver." The delivery rate has changed very little, but the A.F.L.-C.l.O. and the Democrats seem to have become publicly re-enchanted. At the federation's executive-council meeting in Bal Harbour, Fla., last week, a majestic array of high officials-six in all-accepted invitations to demonstrate the President's affection for Big Labor. In return, Meany pronounced: "We have made greater progress with this Administration than with any other in my experience-including Franklin Roosevelt...
...think that universities should try to get as much as they can." "Ultimately," he continued, 'this would reflect on colleges in a political way. We can't afford to let universities become a harbour of privilege," because they are too dependent for financial support and their academic independence on society...
After five hours' sleep, the President was wheeled into surgery. The operation proceeded smoothly (see following story) and at 7:20 a.m. Moyers was able to phone a reassuring report to Vice President Hubert Humphrey at the Harbour Square Apartments in southwest Washington. (By agreement with Johnson, Humphrey was authorized to exercise the full powers of the presidency if an emergency arose while Johnson was incapacitated.) Johnson began emerging from the anesthetic less than 15 minutes after surgery, and after a 40-minute nap the President was back in the cockpit...
...A.F.L.-C.I.O. bigwigs gathered in Bal Harbour, Fla., for their annual executive-council meeting last week, they were in a grim mood. They were mostly unhappy over Congress' second refusal to repeal Section 14(b) of the Taft-Hartley Act, which allows states to enact right-to-work laws. Pete McGavin, executive secretary of the federation's maritime-trades department, spoke for many of his colleagues when he observed: "If President Johnson had put as much emphasis on 14(b) as he did on his wife's beautification program, the measure would have gone through...
Bounced a Bit. When Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz went to Bal Harbour to argue the "good sense" and "good results" of the guidelines, the labor barons were hostile. "We bounced him around a bit," one official said of the private meeting with Wirtz. A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany, 71, issued a pronunciamento that sounded like a declaration of independence from the Democrats. "I'm quite sure the labor movement is prepared to make its own way politically," harrumphed the old Bronx plumber. "I don't buy the idea that we have no place to go. Some...