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...Vice President Spiro Agnew appealed to the workers' fears of crime, drugs and bombings, and to their suspicion of intellectuals. After President Nixon had A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany in for a cozy chat "to discuss foreign policy," Republicans made good use of pictures of the meeting around workingmen's neighborhoods. (Feeling that he had been used, Meany later roasted the Republicans in radio speeches.) On the other side, the Democrats and their old friends in the union leadership played up the pocketbook issues of unemployment and inflation...
While they are being hotly courted on all sides, blue collar workers are also being severely criticized by traditional friends and opponents alike. Political liberals, who once considered workingmen their most reliable allies, now often see them?rather simplistically?as supporters of racism and repression. Black leaders condemn many unions for systematically excluding Negroes. Many other Americans think of labor as fat, lazy and arrogant, a condition exemplified in their minds by the $10-an-hour auto mechanic, the $15-an-hour plumber and the $18,000-a-year carpenter...
...that the nation -and with it, Richard Nixon-has undergone. He sees the New Deal, for example, as a mere readjustment to include more players in the competitive game. But the shift in money and poitical power of the '30s was profound. The competitive game was qualitatively changed. Workingmen could and did begin earning the money to buy houses -and eventually hard, political hats...
...continuing to strum themes suggesting that Buckley supports a rollback of the minimum wage and lessened union security, Ottinger is confident of winning back stray workingmen. An Ottinger win over Goodell would reduce Republican
...campaign, Walinsky is walking a political tightrope similar to that of Robert Kennedy in its simultaneous appeal to both liberals and conservative workingmen. In so doing, he is going against the popular political dicta offered by Richard Scammon and Ben J. Wattenberg in their recent book The Real Majority (TIME, Aug. 31). One of their theses holds that American voters will accept only centrist candidates who are willing to acknowledge and condemn violent social unrest. Walinsky dismisses that argument. "This Scammon-Wattenberg middle is a lot of crap," he says. "You can appeal to differing sides of the spectrum...