“One thing we must do, most of all, in the future, is to harness the atom for peace and get all of the miners out of the earth.”

— Walter Reuther

Text of interview with Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev, San Francisco, California, September 20, 1959, as quoted in Walter P Reuther: Selected Papers (1961), by Henry M. Christman, p. 301
1950s, Meeting with Premier Nikita S. Khrushchev (1959)

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