George Meany

He was succeeded by Lane Kirkland who served as AFL-CIO president for 16 years. Televised hearings in early 1957 exposed misconduct by both the Beck and the Hoffa factions of the Teamsters Union. should respect other peoples' rights to choose communism because there had never been a country that had voted for communism; he accused McGovern of being "an apologist for the Communist world".

William George Meany (August 16 1894 – January 10 1980) led labor union federations in the United States. George Meany was called the "most nationally recognized labor leader in the country for the more than two decades spanning the middle of the 20th century. ".