Records of the Office of the Staff Secretary. 1976 - 1981. Presidential Files. 1977 - 1981. 3/1/78

AFL-CIO

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The AFL and CIO merged in 1955 as an umbrella organization for skilled trade and industrial unions. Its regional office in Baltimore represented worker interests against this railroad merger. From the description of AFL-CIO response to merger of Pennsylvania and New York Central railroads, 1962-1963. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 238572652 Created by merger of American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations in 1955. ...

Ford, Wendell H., 1924-

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Kentucky governor, U.S. senator. Ford, a native of Daviess county, Kentucky, attended the University of Kentucky and the Maryland School of Insurance. After returning from service in the Army during World War II, he joined his family's insurance firm in Owensboro, Ky. He served as chief administrative assistant to Governor Bert T. Combs, and was elected as Democratic state senator in 1965. In 1967, he was elected lieutenant governor to serve with Republican governor Loui...

McIntyre, Tommy, 1936-

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Fallows, James M.

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James M. Fallows was born on August 2, 1949 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He received a B.A. from Harvard University in 1970 and a degree from Oxford University in 1972 in economic development. He worked as a staff editor for the Washington Monthly, 1972 to 1974; free-lance magazine writer, 1972 to 1976; and associate editor of the Texas Monthly, 1974 to 1976. From 1977 to 1979 he served as the chief Presidential Speech Writer for President Carter. Since 1979 he has worked for the Atlantic Mont...

Hamilton, Lee, 1931-

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Lee Herbert Hamilton was born April 20, 1931, in Daytona Beach, Florida, attended the public schools of Evansville, Indiana, excelling in basketball, and graduated from De Pauw University, 1952. He studied at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main, Germany, in 1952 and 1953, and graduated from the Indiana University School of Law in 1956. He went into private practice in Columbus, Indiana, and became active in the Bartholomew County Young Democrats. He was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-ninth...

Meany, George, 1894-1980

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Labor official; interviewee d.1980. From the description of Reminiscences of George Meany : oral history, 1957. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122587289 President, AFL-CIO, 1955-1980. George Meany (1894-1980) was elected president of the American Federation of Labor (A.F. of L.) in 1952. His efforts to unite his organization with its rival, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), was successful, and he was ...