Elizabeth Jo
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first heard Jun 2025
last heard 27 Mar
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He would be sending the military to New York City to
To deliver the mail.
On TV, Nixon said, as president, I shall meet my constitutional responsibility to see that those services are maintained.
That's right.
President Nixon authorized the deployment of thousands of members of the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps, and the National Guard to implement what was called Operation Graphic Hand.
And under Nixon's executive proclamation three nine seven two.
twenty six thousand troops were sent to New York City to sort mail and to deliver mail to businesses.
But the problem was the soldiers were not very good at it.
Yeah.
In nineteen seventy, the Postal Service often relied on hand sorters who could handle more than a thousand letters an hour.
But when the New York Times interviewed specialist Arnold Gray in Brooklyn, here's what he said.
You've heard of the Boston massacre and the Mila massacre.
Tomorrow you're gonna see the New York mail massacre.
I don't know a thing about the post office.
I'm a medic.
The forces of Operation Graphican did process twelve point eight million pieces of mail very slowly.
Luckily for Nixon, the strike didn't last very long.
The Wildcat postal strike of nineteen seventy ended on March twenty fifth.
Just eight days after it began, and postal union leaders promised to negotiate with the federal government.
Ultimately, Congress did approve a pay raise for postal workers, and Nixon eventually signed the Postal Reorganization Act, which recognized their rights to collective bargaining, and it created the US Postal Service that we know today.
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