“We will not meet the problems of tomorrow by talking about yesterday's concepts.”

—  Walter Reuther

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. 310
1950s, Television interview with Mike Wallace (1960)

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