"I am for the state only doing what people are unable to do in the absence of government action."
— Walter Reuther

January 1, 1970

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Text of television interview with Mike Wallace, New York, New York, October 17 and 18, 1960, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 322