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...Missouri, and longtime Presidential Adviser, Jim Rowe, who had opposed Muskie's ill-fated effort in Wisconsin, were sunk in gloom over his fourth-place finish there. Clark Clifford had also been against competing in that primary, but his was a voice of optimism still. U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock, Businessman-Diplomat Sol Linowitz and Muskie's Maine confidant, George Mitchell, added their warnings, suggestions and views to the three-hour discussion that ended with a compromise agreement on new Muskie strategy...
...override them and cut back the West Coast dock-strike settlement from a 20.6% first-year raise to 14.9%, which itself is more than twice the basic wage guidepost. The surprise departure of Meany and Presidents I.W. Abel of the Steelworkers, Floyd Smith of the Machinists, and Leonard Woodcock of the Auto Workers threatened briefly to overturn the Administration's painfully constructed controls on wages and prices...
Many politicians in other states are deeply concerned about the Wallace threat. U.A.W. President Leonard Woodcock, a Muskie supporter, said that Wallace might well win in the Michigan primary on May 16. "It's very depressing, and I'm usually an optimist," he admitted. In Wisconsin, where labor leaders launched a campaign that held Wallace to 7.6% of the presidential vote in 1968, they were getting ready to go at him again. "We are running scared about the Wallace thing," conceded COPE's Ken Germanson. In Indiana, Democratic State Chairman Gordon St. Angelo is so fearful that...
...latest development in the Pay Board dispute came yesterday, when Leonard Woodcock, president of the United Automobile Workers, became the fourth labor leader to quit the Board. President Nixon called the labor leaders who quit "selfish and irresponsible...
Outside the Senate, other voices were being raised against the antibusing trend. United Auto Workers President Leonard Woodcock charged that Senators, Congressmen and even those "in more exalted political office" (meaning Nixon) were using the busing issue to "polarize races in the hope of selfish political gain." New York's Mayor John Lindsay further endangered his remote presidential chances by telling Florida legislators: "I am for busing because it is often the only way to integrate our schools -and because the alternative, perpetual racial segregation, is far worse." Florida's bold Governor Reubin Askew freely conceded that...