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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of that was that every governor except [George] Romney, who was the governor of Michigan, came aboard. It does remind me of something else which I want to mention LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the command of an army general, and everybody understood that loud and clear. F: As far as you could tell, was Governor [George] Wallace more practical than Governor Barnett? [Did he] have more sophistication with regard to what was going on? C: I think
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 59 (LIX), 1/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • York] Times urging us for our-- (Long pause) George Romney chimes in. Somebody writes correctly that nobody wants--okay. All right. Then Johnson, on LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 49 (XLIX), 7/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in Chicago didn't come until [Martin Luther] King [Jr.] assassination. We had real riots in Detroit, didn't we, in 1967. We ought to have [George] Romney in Detroit. G: To some extent was it simply a question of wanting to force the issue in order
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 55 (LV), 9/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • by to tell me that auto sales are slipping. [Then George] Romney chimes in to say that the safety bill would hurt auto sales more. Our view incidentally on that, as I told Markley at the time, was you're making your own problem. Get the goddamn bill passed
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • about the riots or the cause of the riots, but he was worried about Reagan as an opponent. Reagan later beat him. And that was a political factor in all of this. It was nothing like the [Michigan Governor George] Romney-Johnson stuff, which we'll get