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Jimmy Carter: George Meany's enduring monument will be the united, free trade union movement he helped create and led so long and so…

On the recordJanuary 10, 1980
George Meany's enduring monument will be the united, free trade union movement he helped create and led so long and so well.
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Jimmy Carter
Democratic · Georgia

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Statement on the Death of the Former President of the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations...

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