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- Title
"Partisan for the Hard Hats": Charles Colson, George Meany, and the Failed Blue-Collar Strategy.
- Authors
Wehrle, Edmund F.
- Abstract
This article discusses the blue-collar strategy implemented by former U.S. President Richard Nixon in the country. Nixon assigned his devoted-to-a-fault aide Charles Colson the job of cultivating blue-collar workers as part of a grand push to establish a broad Nixon coalition for the election in 1972 with the potential to reshape American electoral politics. This blue-collar strategy helped Nixon to win the 1972 presidential election and put an end to the dominance of the New Deal voting coalition. But his blue-collar strategy failed in 1973 when it rose overwhelmingly on the issue of unique politics of the Vietnam War.
- Subjects
UNITED States; LABOR policy; BLUE collar workers; NIXON, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994; UNITED States presidential elections; COLSON, Charles, 1931-2012
- Publication
Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, 2008, Vol 5, Issue 3, p45
- ISSN
1547-6715
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/15476715-2008-005