Word: wirtz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Willard Wirtz was named to replace Arthur Goldberg as Labor Secretary two years ago, A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany was happy-but not for long. As the months passed, Wirtz irked Meany more and more-largely because the Secretary was not a flat-out champion of labor. When Wirtz failed to come out in a full-throated protest against compulsory arbitration in transportation industries during his testimony at congressional hearings, Meany scornfully described him to a friend: "This guy is not a standup guy. He bends...
That festered in Meany's mind for a long time. Three weeks ago at a White House meeting with Lyndon Johnson, Meany was stunned to learn that Wirtz wanted to get rid of Meany's favorite man in the Labor Department-Under Secretary John Henning, 49, who had been a California Federation of Labor staffer for a decade, then had served as Democratic Governor Pat Brown's state director of industrial relations before being called to Washington...
...Johnson certainly appeared to be making a stab at it. All last week department and agency heads winged in and out of the L.B.J. Ranch. Without exception, they emerged glassy-eyed over the President's cost-cutting efforts. Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz told reporters: "There has been consideration given in the last few hours to the fact that we have been spending $12,500 (out of $511 million) on newspapers in the Department of Labor. We are going to cut that to $11,000." Outgoing Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges recalled that the President had inquired if he might...
Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon, the Cabinet's only Republican, also has talked about leaving Washington, but it probably won't happen soon. Moving up in Johnson's esteem is Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, who pitched in to help write Lyndon's "prosperity" speeches during the campaign. Similarly Commerce Secretary Luther Hodges campaigned for Johnson in North Carolina, where he used to be Governor, and can probably stay on for as long as he likes...
...LABOR--If Wirtz leaves he will probably be replaced by James Reynolds, the present Assistant Secretary, or Theodore Kheel, New York lawyer, friend of New York's Mayor Wagner, and well-known arbitrator of labor disputes...