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On the recordAugust 9, 1979
America lost one of the giants of the labor movement when Jacob Potofsky, the former president of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America, died on Sunday.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Statement on the Death of Jacob Potofsky

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