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W: in opposition to Kirk. You see, the way I Si percieve this2

 and I might be wrong, was that Kirk was looking like the cause

 of the strike, and most of the people of Florida had become

 disenchanted with Kirk, and his J___OJ1" and his travels, and
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 his,A he's obviously extravagAnt. Obviously he was going too far

 looking a bit foolish. both Christian and the
 democratic establishment and the cabinet, the legislature, the

 newspapers, they all worked to make Kirk look like a fool. And

 as long as you were in opposition to Kirk, you seemed to have

 your public with you. Even though Ed Ball and these other
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 peopleAreally supporting Kirk, because he was the one that replaced

 Hayden Burns and their in south Florida, they

 couldn't really come out publicly with their letters and their

 attacks and the rest of this because Kirk's popularity was very

 low.jA hen you went against the legislature and against the

 actual legislation that was passed, it seemed that you lost your

 public. Is this correct?

S: I'm not sure that's the reason we lost the public. I think, my

 opinion the real reason that we lost the public was a, was an

 atmosphere in Florida toward that type of what they call labor

 tactic. I mean, they didn't then, and I don't think now, that

 the public would sanction a strike by teachers or other public

 employees. I just don't, they'd have to have a real valid cause

 I think to, to get generally, to get public support, because
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 people just sieve .a teachers strike.

W: W/il, for one, you would have .4 Christian cj l icc

S: In the first place they said, well, this, it's one, it's unlawful,
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