Word: hardhat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lend his prestige to Senator Ralph Smith's campaign against Adlai Stevenson III. While there, the President took the opportunity to meet with eight leaders of Chicago's large and politically powerful Polish community and at one point to press the flesh with a group of hardhat construction workers in the Loop...
...staging is no coincidence. It is with an appeal to patriotism, stability and law and order that Nixon hopes to place the blue collar and hardhat firmly in the company of the Silent Majority that he considers his own. As Political Analyst Richard Scammon observes: "What is unusual is that until now, Republicans have generally not considered such a large appeal to labor as worthwhile. Now they...
...Souvenir Hardhat. Some of the reasons why the Republicans believe the romance will flourish are already evident. In New York, at least 17 unions have endorsed Nelson Rockefeller for Governor over Arthur Goldberg, a candidate whose impeccable credentials as a labor lawyer and Secretary of Labor under Kennedy would normally rate reflex support. Parades of hardhats backing Administration policy in Southeast Asia have reified the peace backlash and warmed the President personally. Nixon entertained construction and longshoremen union leaders in the Cabinet Room, accepting a souvenir "Commander-in-Chief" hardhat. Later, on his trip to the South, he proudly noted...
Chopin? This is no ordinary roustabout, no average hardhat. This is a supergypsy, Robert Eroica Dupea, scion of a musical family, gifted pianist and older brother of the easy riders of 1969. Indeed, the same studio that produced Easy Rider has manufactured an undrugged, mature version of that film, complete with central emblem: the road as panacea. But now, if something in the plot has thickened, something in the pulse has slowed...
...even truer of youngsters who still go straight from high school to work, war and marriage?certified adults at 18 or 19. To be sure, the children of blue-collar workers increasingly diverge from their parents over hair, dress and the use of pot, which is spreading in hardhat high schools. But politics is another matter: blue-collar children seem to be just as "conservative" as their parents...