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The LBJ Tapes

LBJ with Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz

Labor Calls Special

Washington, DC
Saturday, September 3, 2011

C-SPAN Radio presents a special Labor Day weekend program of some of President Lyndon Johnson’s 1966 phone calls with Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, AFL-CIO President George Meany and Walter Reuther, president of the United Auto Workers. 

Topics include a minimum wage bill, strikes against the railroads and airlines, and anti-war demonstrations at a U-A-W convention.  You’ll also hear LBJ complain about what he considers the lack of organized labor support for LBJ’s Congressional agenda and for Democratic Congressional candidates.

Updated: Thursday, September 1, 2011 at 2:54pm (ET)

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