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Acknowledglllents In addition to the many capable and generous people whose assistance was acknowledged in my two previously published books covering earlier periods of the National Labor Relations Board and U.S. labor policy, I thank my colleague Cletus Daniel. He was not only a patient sounding board 'and a constant source of excellent ideas but also a true friend in all seasons. Special thanks are due Barbara Stoyell-Mulholland, who conducted most of the oral history interviews for this volume and spent many fruitful but lonely hours away from her family doing research in archives and presidential libraries . Patricia Greenfield, Shelley Coppock, and Mairead Connor, all graduate students at the time, also conducted excellent oral history interviews. Ms. Coppock wrote an outstanding master's thesis as well, which provided valuable information on the Kennedy-Johnson Board. I am pleased to acknowledge my debt of gratitude to the staffs of the National Archives and Records Service in Washington, D.C.; the Harry S Truman Library in Independence, Missouri; the Dwight D. Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas; the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library in Austin, Texas; the John Fitzgerald Kennedy Library in Boston, Massachusetts; the George Meany Memorial Archives in Washington, D.C.; the Hagley Museum and Library in Wilmington, Delaware; and the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations Labor-Management Documentation Center (LMDC). Richard Strassberg, Director of the LMDC, and staff member Connie Bulkley were particularly helpful. I am very grateful to Frank McCulloch, former Chairman of the NLRB; Douglas Soutar, former Vice-President of Labor Relations for the American Smelting and Refining Company; and Francis O'Connell, former Vice-President of Labor Relations for the Olin Corporation, for donating their useful and informative papers to the LMDC. John Truesdale, NLRB Executive Secretary, greatly facilitated my research. Special gratitude is due those who helped finance the project, particularly the National Endowment for the Humanities; the American Philosophical Society; the Harry S Truman Library Institute; the Cornell and ILR School Research Grants Committees; the late Shirley Harper, Director of the Martin Catherwood xv xvi Acknowledgments Library; and David Lipsky, Dean of the School of Industrial and Labor Relations , Cornell University. I am deeply grateful to Mrs. Nancy Van Camp, long-time secretary and friend, for her patience and skill in transforming my handwritten yellow sheets into impressive-looking word-processed pages. Gratitude is due those men and women who shared their recollections with us in the vital oral history phase of the study. Finally, my thanks and apologies go to all those who made the mistake of asking me how the book was going and were then subjected to more than they really wanted or needed to know about it. Broken Promise The Subversion of U.S. Labor Relations Policy, 1947-1994 ...

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