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Electrical Workers, the job I still hold.
I also happen to be a
member of the executive council of the AFl-CIO.
M:
Then you were off and on in Washington since the early 1940s.
K:
That's right.
M:
When did you first meet Lyndon Johnson?
K:
I first
- this view or not, but it
was our view.
And we kept writing him and talking to him on that, and I'll
never forget when he said, "All right, let's try something.
I'm
going to call in the Executive Committee of the AFL-CIO and a couple
of days later I'll call
- 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
- :
Yes, very curious,yes.
That was Johnson at his political best or worst,
depending on how you look at it.
I mean, he was determined to win.
B:
Did you ever figure out how he got the CIO support?
M:
Well, he had always been considered more
