reminded his audience that he was the only union leader to run for president. He quoted the late AFL-CIO president George Meany, speaking a year earlier, on the “climate of economic anxiety and uncertainty” midwifed by the Carter administration. He said: “I pledge to you in his memory that the voice of the American worker will once again be heeded in Washington”—promising regular consultation with union leaders—“and that the climate of fear that he spoke of will no longer threaten workers and their families.” He turned his
