Word: pooling
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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Last Chance. The Administration put considerable muscle-including a threatened presidential veto of the appropriations measure-into its fight to persuade Congress to reverse itself. Nixon himself branded the addition of the rider as "dirty pool." Labor Secretary Shultz publicly scolded the A.F.L.-C.I.O. for its opposition to the Philadelphia Plan. Assistant Secretary Arthur A. Fletcher called the plan "our last chance to narrow the income-distribution gap between whites and blacks." As Congress raced toward adjournment, the House went along with the Administration and finally rejected the crippling amendment, 208-156, and the Senate concurred in a midnight vote...