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Richard Nixon: “I find it imperative to call to the attention of the Congress the fact that longshoremen in nearly all of our ports are…”

On the recordDecember 14, 1971
I find it imperative to call to the attention of the Congress the fact that longshoremen in nearly all of our ports are working only because of Taft-Hartley injunctions, and that these have limited duration.
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Richard Nixon
Republican · California

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