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  • Bio: Thomas Reilly Donahue (b. 1928) was Assistant Secretary of Labor for Labor-Management Relations from 1967 to 1969. He also worked for the AFL-CIO for many years, as an assistant to the president from 1960 to 1967, executive assistant
  • LBJ Connection: Assistant to the president of AFL-CIO, 1960 to 1967; Assistant Secretary of Labor for Labor-Management Relations, 1967 to 1969
  • LBJ Connection: President, Texas AFL-CIO, 1961
  • Bio: President, New York State Federation of Labor, 1934-1939; Secretary Treasurer, 1939-1952, President, 1952-1955, American Federation of Labor; President, AFL-CIO, 1955-1979
  • LBJ Connection: President, AFL-CIO, 1955-1979
  • LBJ Connection: President, Communications Workers of America, 1949-1974; Vice President, AFL-CIO; Member, President's Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 1963
  • LBJ Connection: Director, Department of Research, AFL-CIO, 1955-1962; Special Assistant to the Secretary of Labor, 1963-1965; Manpower Administrator, 1965-1966; Assistant Secretary of Labor, 1966-1969
  • as a negotiator and chief legal advisor in the merger of the American Federation of Labor (AFL) and CIO in 1955. He played a key role in AFL-CIO policies aimed at ending corrupt union practices among affiliates. President Kennedy appointed Goldberg Secretary
  • LBJ Connection: General Counsel, CIO, 1948-1955; of Industrial Union Department, AFL-CIO, 1955-1961; Secretary of Labor, 1961-1962; Associate Justice, U.S. Supreme Court, 1962-1965; U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., 1965-1968
  • LBJ Connection: Deputy Administrator, Housing and Home Finance Agency, 1961-1963; Executive Director, Industrial Union Department, AFL-CIO, 1963-1968; Member, President’s Committee on Equal Opportunity in Housing, 1963-1968; Deputy Director, Office
  • secretary of the Texas State Federation of Labor and in 1953 became executive secretary. He became president of the State AFL-CIO in 1957 and was re-elected in 1959.
  • representative in Washington, D.C. In 1958, she became a lobbyist for the Industrial Union Department of the AFL-CIO. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy appointed her assistant secretary of the Department of Labor and director of the Women's Bureau. During
  • LBJ Connection: Consumer adviser; Washington Legislative Representative, Almagamated Clothing Workers of America, 1945-1948; Legislative Representative, Industrial Union Department of the AFL-CIO, 1958-1961; Director, Women's Bureau, Department
  • as a lobbyist for the AFL-CIO, and as assistant director in the U.S. Office of Economic Opportunity and poverty adviser to then-Vice President Hubert Humphrey. He was a longtime lobbyist for Jewish causes, and served as the American Jewish Committee’s Washington
  • LBJ Connection: Labor official; Regional Director, CIO, Texas; Director of Organizing Committee of CIO, Texas, 1946-1950; Assistant to Walter Reuther, CIO, in charge of Legislative Operations, 1950-1960