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William Willard Wirtz (* 14. März 1912 in DeKalb, Illinois; † 24. April 2010 in Washington, D.C.) war ein US-amerikanischer Politiker ( Demokratische Partei ).
William Willard Wirtz (March 14, 1912 – April 24, 2010) was a U.S. administrator, cabinet officer, attorney, and law professor. He served as the Secretary of Labor between 1962 and 1969 under the administrations of Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson .
26. Apr. 2010 · W. Willard Wirtz, an outspoken champion of the unemployed who was secretary of labor under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson and was the last surviving member of the Kennedy...
Teacher of English and law; general counsel, Board of Economic Warfare, War Labor Board; Chairman, Wage Stabilization Board. Appointed by John F. Kennedy. In labor-management disputes, he encouraged resolution through collective bargaining rather than government intervention.
Among his other considerable talents, former Secretary of Labor Willard Wirtz was one of the country’s foremost collectors of malaprops. His collection, naturally, was studded with gems from Washington, that font of bureaucratese and other language butchery.
President John Kennedy named Wirtz undersecretary of labor in 1961, and in September 1962, he tapped Wirtz to succeed Arthur Goldberg as secretary of labor, following the latter's appointment to the Supreme Court.
Never has there been a greater champion of US workers than former Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, who died on April 24 at 98. Certainly, in more than a half-century of covering labor, I've never...
