Yes Beowulf9. I scanned the article, and no where (unless I missed it) do I see reference to the Mob not asking him to run. Love to know if they asked him not too, the way they roll my guess is they only ask you once.
Also the restaurant is now Andiamo's a local high end Italian chain, and the food is amazing. At one point they had pictures in it from back in the day ( celebrities etc, black and white you know the drill ) and some of the old wait staff ( probably dead by now ) were their that night and were not afraid to talk about it.
He promised not to run as a condition of Nixon’s pardon. The mob was probably told it would not be a good thing for Hoffa to be seen as lying to Nixon. As funny as that sounds.
“His story is this: He and others were ordered by the Mafia to kill Hoffa to prevent him from trying to run again for the presidency of the Teamsters union”.
Sixteenth paragraph down.