Thank you for your service.. . I enlisted in 2001 . .
Thank you for your service.. . I enlisted in 2001 . .
And a Pension in 20 years? Retire at 40?
The claims look to me like “ambit claims,” or an initial bargaining offer without prejudice. I suspect that a number of failures in bargaining happened. To a certain extent the workers may have not perceived their industrial weakness fully. But the demands people are viewing as too large were deliberately so to give a retreat position. Union bargaining isn’t line in the sand.
I like this, but the initial position probably still needs to be something which 35 to 45% of the general public can agree with.. . an initial bargaining offer . .
marathag, I’m an easy sell on your position, because I remember newspaper letters during a teachers’ strike, and how much jealousy and resentment there was to the fact that teachers got the whole summer off, almost to the exclusion of any other issue.. . But the Mail Sorters weren't looking for a 4 day week, and a instant pay increase . .
But I hope you see some of my position, that even if moral right was with the government during the air traffic controllers’ strike, it set in motion an awful trend during the rest of the ‘80s.
Yes, I think Elie did well.https://www.pbs.org/eliewiesel/resources/reagan.html
April 19, 1985
Elie Wiesel: “ . . . But, Mr. President, I wouldn't be the person I am, and you wouldn't respect me for what I am, if I were not to tell you also of the sadness that is in my heart for what happened during the last week. And I am sure that you, too, are sad for the same reasons. . . ”
Yes, the American Legion thought President Reagan was making a mistake, too.Reagan Defends Move to Visit German Graves : 'We Must Look to the Future,' He Says After Criticism From Jewish Groups, American Legion
Los Angeles Times, George Skelton, April 13, 1985
http://articles.latimes.com/1985-04-13/news/mn-12168_1_american-legion
' . . . . Clarence B. Bacon, national commander of the American Legion, said that by honoring dead German soldiers but not visiting either American graves or a Nazi death camp, Reagan "is perceived as honoring not those who fought for peace and freedom, but those who died for conquest and oppression."
'The legion, which has a membership of 2.5 million veterans, issued a statement saying it was "deeply disappointed" in Reagan's decision to visit the cemetery. . . '
By the 90s following orders being ‘no excuse’ was extended to being any part of the German war effort. This was a period before that point where the controversy was viewed as which German soldiers where buried there. And no it didn’t hurt Reagan’s poll numbers.
. . . stuff in the academia, such as Ordinary Men...
Well, social pressure is strong, even for somewhat older men who were not fanatical Nazis.https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-06-019013-2
"On June 13, 1942, the commanding officer of Reserve Police Battalion 101 received orders to round up the Jews in the Polish town of Josefow and shoot all but the able-bodied males. Major Wilhelm Trapp, who wept over the order, gave his troops the extraordinary option of ``excusing themselves'' from the task. Of the 500 in the unit only a dozen did so, . . . "
Doesn't mean you can go to the well a second time! Especially when circumstances really are somewhat different.Reagan: The Life
H. W. Brands, Penguin Random House, 2015.
https://books.google.com/books?id=w...ce matters and to lay the groundwork"&f=false
" . . . had its roots in a meeting between Reagan and West German chancellor Helmut Kohl in November 1984. Kohl traveled to Washington to discuss alliance matters and to lay the groundwork for a meeting of the G7 in Bonn the following May. Kohl confessed that he and other Germans had been offended by their country's exclusion from the fortieth-anniversary commemorations of the D-Day landings, and he [Kohl] shared that a subsequent bury-the-hatchet meeting between himself and François Mitterrand of France at the World War I battlefield at Verdun had yielded good feelings . . . "
This is something on which people can disagree. Someone might think they pulled themselves back from the brink as it were, and didn't break down. Someone else might think, yes, they kind of did break down. And this might also pertain to a person who's there as a witness and whether this other person knows the person well vs. that they don't.Spokesman Denies Kohl Made Emotional Plea On Cemetery Visit
AP, Susan J. Smith, April 22, 1985
https://www.apnews.com/f4dbe4bb3d882ae8a749ff1579b6b8c7
BONN, West Ger (AP) _ 'The government on Monday denied a statement by a former White House official that Chancellor Helmut Kohl broke down when he implored President Reagan to visit a German military cemetery.
'David Gergen’s description of an emotional appeal from Kohl during a visit to the White House in November was incorrect, chief government spokesman Peter Boenisch told The Associated Press. Gergen is a former White House communications director. . . '
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' . . . ″I was at the discussion (in Washington). Kohl did not cry and he did not have any tears in his eyes,″ Boenisch said. . . '
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