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Q:

Do you remember any key points that either the executive committee disagreed on, or the-

Heiskell:

Yes, well there were some-

Q:

Points of disagreement?

Heiskell:

Yeah, because of course, the various people had somewhat different interests and Walter Reuther and Henry Ford, for example, were not always buddy-buddies and here for the first time they were sitting together trying to write a plank that would suit both of them and would be meaningful. And they would get into considerable argument about the role that the union should play versus the role that private enterprise should play, or particularly whether the role should all be done by government or some of it should be done by private enterprise, with the union people tending to lean one way, and the industrialists the other. But it was really the first time that they had ever literally, I mean literally, rubbed shoulders. They were sitting there in this hot, sweaty room all through a day and a night trying to put together something that we could read to twelve hundred people the next morning at ten o'clock. And read it we did. And I don't quite know whether to read this into this record, or whether to just make a copy of it for the record.





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