Word: workingmen
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...left friends in Congress never weary of telling me they are the good Samaritans; that they are more sensitive to the needs of the impoverished. Well, we believe in representing the poor too, and we do. But the time has come for someone also to represent the workingmen of this country, the Forgotten Man of American politics. The President and I are applying for that job. The workingman has become the cornerstone of the New Majority...
...CONCLUSIONS are in order First: Price-stabilization measures, as conceived by those proposing them today, are derived consequences of a policy of reducing real wages. Inflation, and the agonizing insecurity it generates is thus modified at the expense of workingmen's incomes. The 48 per cent who believe otherwise, who anticipate some relative improvement due to a leveling off in prices, will be inevitably disappointed. at the expense of workingmen's incomes...
...honoring various trades. The Administration denies that it will make any calculated appeal to hardhat militancy, insisting that the report "deals with all people in a certain economic status, regardless of race." But it is not lost on the White House that winning the hearts and votes of white workingmen and women will require more than a program of "benign neglect...
...greatest problem of the Tories is, as usual, Ted Heath. A bachelor at 53, he is hardly a Trudeau-like swinger. The son of a carpenter, he is often put down as an arriviste by the snobbish Tory squirearchy, and resented as overly stuffy by workingmen. An uninspired orator, he so lacks appeal that he has rarely registered more than 30% approval in the polls. "Despite all the publicity for him," a leading Tory complains, "he still doesn't get across, and he won't get anywhere until he learns to join the human race." Wilson...
...grave danger. Citing violations of civil rights, the war and an "atmosphere of repression" as among the major causes, Warren said that there has been no crisis "within the memory of living Americans which compares with this one." The national mood is roiled and apprehensive. Policemen and pro-Nixon workingmen gave vent to their frustrations with the same vehemence as partisans on the other side...