Lemuel Ricketts Boulware (1895 in
Springfield, Kentucky
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History
Spring ...
– November 7, 1990 in
Delray Beach
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,
Florida
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) was
General Electric
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's vice president of labor and community relations from 1956 until 1961. Boulware's business tutelage and political cultivation of
Ronald Reagan
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from 1954 to 1962 while Reagan was a spokesman for the company is argued to have led to Reagan's conversion from
New Deal
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-style
liberalism
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to
Barry Goldwater
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-style
conservatism
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.
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See also
* National Register of Historic Pla ...
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Boulware's aggressive 20-year-long policy of "take-it-or-leave-it" bargaining by GE became known as "
Boulwarism
Boulwarism is the tactic of making a "take-it-or-leave-it" offer in a negotiation, with no further concessions or discussion. It was named after General Electric's former vice president Lemuel Boulware, who promoted the strategy. One example of ...
". He devised the strategy in reaction to success in the 1946 general strikes by the United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (UE) and the other two largest unions of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO).
Published works
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References
Further reading
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External links
Lemuel R. Boulware papers, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania
1895 births
1990 deaths
General Electric people
20th-century American businesspeople
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