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  • look good . say, You write this and 'Sources say that it looks as though it's going to be Kennedy and Johnson .' That's the background on the story ." I can remember talking with the AFL-CIO delegation from Massachusetts . Bill Bolanger
  • legislative representative for the AFL-CIO in the decade of the 1950s. P: I started off as representative for the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America. M: Do you remember Johnson from that far back? P: He was in the House then. ~ยท1: In 1948. P
  • Holleman was a labor official at the time-- S: He was president of the AFofL-CIO, I believe; and Fred Schmidt was another one of the labor leaders; and of course Creekmore Fath was one of those people, too, that were somewhat suspicious of this new-- B
  • : 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