Nixon administration
Strategic Concepts & Mechanics
Primary Evidence
"Until the “Monory liberation,” the head of Clermont-Ferrand continued to complain about the damage caused by price controls and lamented the speed limits on roads decided without consultation. In August 1976, he set out to denounce the reform of the company and the taxation of capital gains. In June 1978, in front of his shareholders, he opposed the project of employee participation in company management, which “risks undermining the authority of managers” and leads “inevitably to the establishment of a parallel hierarchy that would have the opportunity to introduce dissent, would cause the loss of a great deal of time and, more than anything else, would set men against each other.” The company sent a lengthy note to the Ministry of Labor to demonstrate the futility of granting powers to unions that they reject. When the Nixon administration took measures — of questionable constitutionality, as will be seen later — to prevent Michelin tires manufactured in Canada from entering the United States, François Michelin discouraged the Élysée from intervening. Everyone has their own competencies and areas of action."
"Until the “Monory liberation,” the head of Clermont-Ferrand continued to complain about the damage caused by price controls and lamented the speed limits on roads decided without consultation. In August 1976, he set out to denounce the reform of the company and the taxation of capital gains. In June 1978, in front of his shareholders, he opposed the project of employee participation in company management, which “risks undermining the authority of managers” and leads “inevitably to the establishment of a parallel hierarchy that would have the opportunity to introduce dissent, would cause the loss of a great deal of time and, more than anything else, would set men against each other.” The company sent a lengthy note to the Ministry of Labor to demonstrate the futility of granting powers to unions that they reject. When the Nixon administration took measures — of questionable constitutionality, as will be seen later — to prevent Michelin tires manufactured in Canada from entering the United States, François Michelin discouraged the Élysée from intervening. Everyone has their own competencies and areas of action."