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I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.

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Richard Trumka
Age: 72 †
Born: 1949
Born: July 24
Died: 2021
Died: August 5
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Richard L. Trumka
Richard Louis Trumka
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