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...Bush’s main adversaries, told CNN’s John King, “I think the president, the vice president, secretary of state, are undertaking a very complicated, and, frankly, fitting type of response to this.” Ultra-liberal AFL-CIO President John J. Sweeney has also voiced his support for Bush, and he openly backed any U.S. military retaliation that might take place. The magnitude and degree of positive responses from those normally critical of the administration have been unbelievable. Conservative talk-show host Rush Limbaugh noted, “There is a tremendous...
...Jules. It's Brian. I'm on a plane that's been hijacked. It doesn't look good. I just want to tell you how much I love you." As United Flight 175 hurtled toward Manhattan, Brian Sweeney, 38, managed to tick off all the important points for his wife Julie in a message on their Cape Cod, Mass., answering machine. "I hope that I call you again. But if not, I want you to have fun. I want you to live your life. I know I'll see you someday." Eight minutes later, after Sweeney made the extemporaneous speech...
...Julie Sweeney has listened to her husband's message only once. She is trying to resist playing it over and over. "I want to keep listening to it, I want to hear his voice, but I don't know if that's a healthy thing to do." She is glad he called, because "hearing his calm voice, hearing his love for me, was helpful." But it also saddened her, she says, making her feel like a witness to her husband's murder...
...largest rally at Harvard in at least a decade--billed by PSLM members as “unprecedented”--managed to attract about 1,100 supporters to hear AFL-CIO’s Sweeney offer PSLM a “message of support...
...Most powerfully, AFL-CIO president John J. Sweeney came to speak at the sit-in? largest rally, pledging his support to the students inside the building and lauding them for their courage...