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...reorganize HEW," Humphrey asks, "why take the smallest part away?" On Capitol Hill, there is feeling that if HEW is dismantled, a Department of Education would become a mouthpiece for the NEA while a Department of Health would become a loudspeaker for the American Medical Association. Both Albert Shanker, president of the AFT, and Bok, despite their diverging motivations, suggest an internal reorganization of the massive HEW machinery along the lines of the Pentagon's five services. Bok says he would hate to see "a better structured organization within a very strong department (i.e., HEW) replaced by a Cabinet secretary...
...private headquarters to pay his respects. "I anticipate a very tough year," said the man whose followers snarled the city in 1971 by locking drawbridges in open positions. "But I'm a pragmatic trade unionist and I will bargain." Another caller come to toast the victor was Albert Shanker, head of the muscular teachers' union and a man who had opposed Koch during the election. The powerbrokers were already getting their lines out to the mayor...
...Wurf and the other union chiefs at the AFL-CIO meeting, the play seemed as earnest as the work. The labor leaders had converged on Bal Harbour with their customary large supporting casts. Teachers Union Chief Albert Shanker, for example, arrived with his wife and three children. Other union bosses brought along legions of aides, among them their legislative advisers, public relations assistants and political operatives, as well as a secretary...
...pretend to be more Albert Schweitzer than Shanker...
...crowd, which included Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers, and black labor leader Bayard Rustin, cheered wildly as the triumphant candidate accepted his victory...