The Presidency: When TheTime Comes . . .

THE PRESIDENCY

Organized labor has blown hot and cold on President Johnson during the course of his long political career. When he first came to Congress as a New Dealing Texas Democrat, labor's leaders loved him. But then, under the Truman Administration, he voted for the Taft-Hartley Act, and the unionists neither forgave nor forgot; in 1960 Johnson was the only major candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination who was opposed by Big Labor, and Walter Reuther protested volubly against Johnson's being named Kennedy's running mate. But by last week labor had come full circle — almost.

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