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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 26 (XXVI), 4/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, or the run-down areas. [Walter] Reuther then came to the White House, as you've got here on the sixteenth of September [1965], and talked at some length to Dick Goodwin and me. And he was coming in with the same sort of idea we were playing with, still very

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 52 (LII), 8/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

with Wirtz' view on the ground that a wage of even $1.60 an hour was only $3,200 a year, and that it was hard to see how anybody could live on that. I then told him that labor was strong on this, that [Walter] Reuther and Meany had sent their lieutenants over

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

this auto price issue turned out in 1965. I do remember we did send word to the auto industry. You have to understand two things. One, [Walter] Reuther, as [Gardner] Ackley notes in his memo, is in part trying to set up a situation in which he gets

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

the President started asking everybody--which was a committee made up of major union heads like George Meany and Walter Reuther and major businessmen like Tom Watson and [I.W.] Abel. Johnson started asking about whether or not a tax increase would be appropriate

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for president, we were sitting around his office one day and Johnson was sitting in the rocking chair and I was sitting on the couch to the right of the rocking chair. And he said, "You know, the difference between me and Hubert Humphrey is that when Walter

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and we didn't have to get votes--I'm not saying that's a perfect world--but if we were living in that kind of a world, we would have gone with six cities, the kind of thing that [Walter] Reuther and I talked about that first afternoon. And we would have

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

do we pick on these guys? There was a [Walter] Reuther settlement up at 4 or 5 per cent. That we're talking about twenty or thirty million dollars." Steel stayed within the guidelines. When we talk about a 4 per cent settlement we've got to recognize

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

this, which I guess I had with Walter Reuther among others, we were talking about one or two or three cities, just take a part of Detroit, take a neighborhood, rebuild it, and show that you can make it a gleaming gem. The rhetoric on this program is tremendous

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

over the lot on the appointment. I'm sure he talked to scores of people about who should be appointed. He talked to me about David Rockefeller, Laurance Rockefeller, Ben Heineman, I don't know, lots of others, even at that point in time I think Walter