and knudsen says to his boss, alfred sloan, he said, i'm an immigrant who came to these shores. everything that i have, i owe to america. my president called, i'm going to answer and deal with that situation. the problem he's going to face then is not just opposition from many of his fellow businessmen who hate the new deal just as much as roosevelt hates them and not just opposition from the isolationist congress, but also in labor unions. as i explain in this book here, one of the major obstacles that knudsen faced throughout his effort to try to get this economy going and geared up towards wartime occupation were the resistance of the unions. they feared the shift to wartime production from civilian production would seriously damage the gains they had made in terms of union power, in terms of the union membership all through the '30s during the new deal, and they resist the effort to wartime production to a degree that lasts not just in the prewar period up until pearl harbor, that goes on afterwards and extends out beyond that as well. it's one of the shocking stories of thi

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