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  • Series > Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories (remove)
  • Date > 1983-05-24 (remove)

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  • building trades department of the AFL-CIO. Now, again, there of course everybody had sort of mixed feelings, because the building trades have traditionally been Republican rather than Democratic. That's the one segment of labor that really did stay
  • it wouldn't do anything for them, and it was going to be a big effort to extend welfare benefits to the working poor, so to speak. So they didn't like that idea as a group and it never really got the support of the AFL-CIO as an idea. So for various reasons