In a letter to both hourly and salaried workers, Akerson used the coming Labor Day holiday as an occasion to say nice things about unions and promote the idea of labor peace.

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And spreading some joy and some peace: It's a nice thing.

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Those vitriolic times did not see any of the deeper issues resolved, however, and so the world of whaling went through two years of attempted peace and reconciliation in which everyone tried to be nice to everyone else in public while making efforts behind the scenes to find common ground.

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In most cases, the speakers will regale us with tales of how they will make peace with the PLO and will warn us that we have to be nice to Abbas, (and eat our peas and carrots, ) or be destroyed by Iranian nuclear bombs.

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Mr. BOB KAGAN (Scholar, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace): The nice thing about a campaign is you can always talk in pretty black-and-white terms about what you'd like to do and what you think.

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