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REMEMBERING LANE KIRKLAND
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ABC This Week
08-15-1999
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COKIE ROBERTS: Finally this week, we learned of the death of Lane Kirkland, the long-time head of the AFL-CIO. And George, he was a major force not only in this country but around the world. And to that, he won the medal of freedom from President Clinton.
GEORGE WILL: He richly deserved it.
(voice-over) He was a Cold War liberal, in...
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