Word: wirtz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They met for two hours, disagreed on the terms, and Wolfe phoned Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz to join them in conference. Wirtz called the President, just back from the fair, and Johnson asked that the railroad presidents come to the White House. He met them in the yellow-walled family living room upstairs, told them in his best soft-sell technique: "If you decide not to accept this proposal, I'll consider you responsible persons who had reasons for not doing it. But, I hope you'll find a way to take...
...studio, where bedlam ruled as technicians raced about to set up cameras, microphones and a room for the broadcast. CBS had 20 minutes' notice from the White House, and no one was even certain what the President had to say. Watching the confusion, Johnson quipped to Willard Wirtz: "I guess we got these guys a little upset." At 6:45 p.m. the President went...
Crisis Unto Crisis. This was the situation faced by President Johnson. He had already ordered Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz to try to negotiate a strike postponement. Wirtz made little headway. Johnson hereupon summoned management and labor negotiators to the White House. There, in the Cabinet Room, he read a prepared statement: "Although this railroad crisis has gone on for over four years, it has now been brought to a crisis stage with less than 48 hours available for last-ditch collective bargaining. This does not give the bargaining process a fair chance. It does not give the country...
...judiciary, Wirtz concluded, is taking the most influential steps in America's really important problems, such as civil rights and reapportionment. "What is going on in this society that the body furthest removed from the people is doing the most innovating...
...Wirtz called for more education and better communication to help create a more publicly oriented society. He said that most of the public's information about important problems comes from a combination of 90-second news broadcasts and scanning the newspaper headlines...