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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations], and Walter Reuther, the president of the United Auto Workers [UAW]. He …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… you do some of the groundwork for health care in terms of Walter Reuther? How did this issue come to be on his agenda … We know about the Committee of 100, and apparently Walter Reuther asked Kennedy to join it. Did this come from …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Paul Ellwood. Paul was a physician who was pretty close to Walter Mondale, who was a member of our committee at the … by the unions, primarily the UAW [United Auto Workers] and Walter Reuther, but also the AFL-CIO [American Federation of Labor …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… early, and there are many people who have talked about Walter Reuther and the committee of 100. Reuther apparently …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… and fiscal policy, unemployment, inflation, and so on. Walter Heller, as chairman under Kennedy, but I think very … more active, and the UAW moved in to a greater extent, Walter Reuther was gone. It had started with Walter Reuther …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Well, the UAW, maybe it was an ideological thing with Walter Reuther. I don’t know. Blumenthal I think it was. …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… was then the most progressive of the unions. It had the Walter Reuther tradition, and Doug Fraser was then the … to one of the unions? Heininger He had been brought in by Walter Reuther, so yes. He had originally been a journalist. …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… on general economic issues, for example, invite Walter Heller to have dinner at his home, and we’d invite two … you? Parker Yes. Young I think you may have mentioned Walter Reuther last time. Parker Yes, Walter Reuther’s death—it was a huge setback for …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… comes through with George Meany. They had their session. [Walter] Reuther comes separately. [George] Smathers came. I don't … give Lyndon Johnson a second thought. Pretty early on, Walter Jenkins called me and asked me to come over and we had …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… health bills that were coming up. Young I see. Where did Walter Reuther come into this? The Committee of 100? You know, this … of mine and enormous supporters of my brother Bobby and Walter Reuther is one of the most highly regarded people in …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Kerr, the president of the University of California, and Walter Reuther got together on a compromise plank, and they … it. I don’t know. The impression I got from Clark Kerr and Walter Reuther was that it was up to Hubert and Gene. But …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… put it together, largely because of his conversations with Walter Reuther, the great leader of the United Auto Workers, as much as anyone. Unfortunately, Reuther died in an airplane crash in May of 1970, and his …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… insurance system for everybody, and it was spearheaded by Walter Reuther, who was the head of the AFL-CIO [American …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… 1965 was the enactment of Medicare and Medicaid. In 1969, Walter Reuther, the labor leader, formed the Committee of …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Young He came out for national health insurance. Walter Reuther was very much—who was the guy in the House? Wilbur …
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| Bill Clinton Project… in Presidential politics was as a speechwriter for Walter Mondale in 1984 and then for Michael Dukakis in 1988. … latter. I mean just about everything. Nobody, including Walter Mondale and Michael Dukakis, would have said in 1990 … I had a bet about how many times I could get him to cite Walter Reuther [the legendary UAW president]. Of course, when …
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| Edward M. Kennedy Project… Harriman, Mrs. Herbert [Edith] Lehman, John Lindsay, Walter Mondale, Reinhold Niebuhr, Esther Peterson, Walter Washington, Roy Wilkins, [Willard] Wirtz, [Leonard] … Abner Mikva, Clarence Mitchell, Robert Nathan, Walter Reuther, Leon Shull from the Americans for Democratic Action …
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| Bill Clinton Project… Schlesinger and Reinhold Niebuhr and Eleanor Roosevelt and Walter Reuther and Hubert Humphrey and others got together to found … to get the black vote, but we always got the black vote. Walter Mondale got the black vote. The challenge for …
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| Ronald Reagan Project… give you all these reasons why there was. Then I’d say, Walter Reuther does not consider you a big union. Reagan … Young Yes. Spencer The same thing would have been true on [Walter] Mondale’s plane, whatever they were doing. Riley I …
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| George W. Bush Project… Labor–Congress of Industrial Organizations] that is, and Walter Reuther, George Meany, and anticommunist intellectuals … period ruined our friendship pretty much. General Vernon Walters was totally opposed to this. The Latin America shop …