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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
- , and I arranged the meeting of the AF of L and the CIO .
They were not together at that time, but both groups came to this
meeting .
And the question was, they wanted to hear from the candidate .
They knew he had voted for :-.the Taft-Hartley law
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That would make more sense.
would come up.
L:
And they tried to connect me with the CIO, which was a dirty word in
Texas in that day and time, and they were so vicious in their campaign
against me that it just kind of backfired, and I came in--and I think
