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The following discussion is an archived discussion of the DYK nomination of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as this nomination's talk page, the article's talk page or Wikipedia talk:Did you know), unless there is consensus to re-open the discussion at this page. No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was: promoted by Orlady (talk) 18:33, 2 December 2011 (UTC)

George Meany

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AFL–CIO President George Meany

  • ... that, in supporting peace negotiations to end the Vietnam War and opposing a U.S. withdrawal, AFL–CIO President George Meany (pictured) stated that "in Vietnam the AFL–CIO is neither hawk nor dove nor chicken"?

Created/expanded by Cullen328 (talk), Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk). Nominated by Kiefer.Wolfowitz (talk) at 23:16, 20 November 2011 (UTC)

Length, history and references verified. Glad to see we've expanded this article, and so well.

I do, however, think we could use a catchier hook ... the Vietnam quote is well-known already, and it's not really that surprising to anyone today that he kicked the Teamsters out of the AFL-CIO. Instead, I suggest:

ALT2:

That's not widely known ... and genuinely interesting. Daniel Case (talk) 05:43, 23 November 2011 (UTC)

  • Your hook is most interesting for informed readers. The last time I wrote AFL-CIO at DYK, the reviewer chastised me for using an esoteric acronym! O tempes, o mores. For the general public, the previous hooks are better, I think.  Kiefer.Wolfowitz 19:52, 23 November 2011 (UTC)