ANSWER: Name this socialist

[Michael Hoover]

> <quote>
> Kirkland was an ardent anti-Communist who was proud of his 
> organization's efforts to assist the Solidarity movement in bringing 
> democracy to Poland by any means it could. During the 1970's and 
> 80's, he worked tirelessly to help Solidarity topple the Communist 
> government, surreptitiously channeling organization money and fax 
> machines to the movement led by Lech Walesa.
> "The success of Solidarity owes a lot to Lane," said Henry A. 
> Kissinger, a close friend of Kirkland. "He supported it with funds 
> and organizers, and he had a big effect on American policy makers."
> But leaders of several big unions forced him from office, saying that 
> he lacked the same intense interest when it came to energizing 
> American workers and winning them over to trade unionism.
> </quote>
> Doug

same Lane Kirkland who followed his predecessor George Meany in
working against changing delegate selection rules for Dem party
conventions that would allow more minorities and women to be
represented...

and was a member, along with such sterling labor labors such as
one-time RNC chair William Brock, then US Chamber of Commerce
international vice-prez Michael Samuels, Zbigniew Brzezinski,
and war criminal Kissinger, of the American Political Foundation,
precursor of the misnamed National Endowment for Democracy...
Michael Hoover