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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the merger. When did that merger issue come up? The end of 1966? The Penn-Central? G: It started long before that. C: Yes, but when did we have the meetings and [Abe] Fortas--I can't remember. We got a paper on it. B: Thanksgiving. 1966. C: So it's
Oral history transcript, Joseph W. Barr, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . B: Yes, old Abe. He probably talked to some one like Fortas, you know. G: Ultimately, did he…. B: Ultimately, yes. He said "Fine." And you know, strangely enough, we were never criticized for the appearance of those coins. The thing that we had
Oral history transcript, James M. Quigley, interview 1 (I), 10/25/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • around, and ready to quit and go back to the practice of law, and a little saner and more balanced living. But eventually, I was called by Ralph Dungan, and he said, "Jim, why don't you go up to Hartford? Abe Ribicoff is going to be the Secretary of HEW
  • Room; the 1960 Democratic National Convention and Quigley's view of LBJ at that time; JFK's decision to ask LBJ to be his vice-presidential running mate and LBJ's decision to accept; Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) Abraham Ribicoff
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 13 (XIII), 9/10/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , probably led by Abe Ribicoff, and that Wilbur Mills flatly stated he didn't think that an excise tax bill was a proper vehicle to impose safety regulations in the auto industry. And he refused to go along with the suggestion. It was a good idea, though. G
  • ; Arthur Goldberg's resignation from the Supreme Court and appointment as United Nations (UN) ambassador; Adlai Stevenson as UN ambassador; Abe Fortas' appointment to the Supreme Court; Lyndon Johnson's (LBJ) relationships with Abe Fortas and Clark Clifford
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • holding down government expenditures, that Kennedy was saying we had to spend two billion dollars a year on the cities program. [Abraham] Ribicoff wanted to spend a hundred billion dollars on the cities program. This was kind of irresponsible talk
Oral history transcript, Michael V. DiSalle, interview 1 (I), 2/4/1969, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • ,vas a first ballot winner. I was talking to Abe Ribicoff and John Bailey and talking about possible candidates for the Vice Presidency. Ribicoff said, "Well, he'll have to offer it to Lyndon Johnson." And I said, "Well, don't offer it to him if you
  • Biographical information; Senator McFarland; Sam Rayburn; relationship between Truman and Senator Johnson; Paul Butler; 1956, 1960 and 1964 conventions and campaigns; JFK; Jim Rowe; Hubert Humphrey; Abe Ribicoff; RFK; LBJ as Vice President; DNC; 3
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 1 (I), 12/8/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with Lyndon Johnson, with Abe Fortas, and with a whole group of people who were Lyndon B. Johnson friends. And in my relationship with Miss Wickenden, it was she who ultimately brought me together with Lyndon Johnson. That did not occur for some fifteen years
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 23 (XXIII), 7/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the convention; the role of LBJ and the DNC the convention; efforts to establish dialogue between the Humphrey campaign and young people; violence caused by the youth movement and Chicago police; altercations at the convention between Abe Ribicoff and Richard
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 30 (XXX), 11/4/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • who really were McGovern supporters were the most critical of the campaign. Abe Ribicoff was probably the most highly visible party regular in the country in support of McGovern. He dwelled at some length on his frustrations and the lack
Oral history transcript, Robert C. Wood, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • Heineman. Heineman joined the group and became thereafter a major and a strong participant on the organizational side which was a particular charge that Ribicoff and he were given. joined us until the last meeting. Abe never But Jerry Sonosky was his
Oral history transcript, Joseph M. Barr, interview 1 (I), 6/10/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • it was in the I think Ribicoff was handling the In fact I even took the nominating speech of Dave Lawrence of Lyndon Johnson over to Abe Ribicoff to see what he thought of it. held out, He thought it was fine. if I remember correctly, the Michigan delegation
Oral history transcript, James W. Symington, interview 2 (II), 9/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz (Item)
  • was in a Washington firm, Abe was a great friend of the President, so I had some feeling then of the association, although it was kind of secondary to me. It's from that law job that I was appointed executive director of his [Robert Kennedy] Committee on Juvenile
Oral history transcript, Anthony J. Celebrezze, interview 1 (I), 1/26/1971, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 4 position, or something? C: Yes, Abe Ribicoff felt the department was too big, and I
Oral history transcript, Thomas Francis "Mike" Gorman, interview 1 (I), 6/5/1985, by Clarence Lasby (Item)
  • an institute devoted to heart disease, cancer and stroke; JFK's lack of support for health issues; Abe Fortas' and Myer Feldman's work for LBJ; the President's Commission on Heart Disease, Cancer and Stroke; the idea of regional National Institute of Health
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , or someone had outlined, the manufacturers' position, [Abraham] Ribicoff's position, the administration position, [Walter] Mondale's position, and essentially the [Ralph] Nader/[Vance] Hartke position, as well as Magnuson's. C: Yes. And we, by and large
Oral history transcript, Francis Keppel, interview 1 (I), 4/21/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • administration, and he has now accepted. It took eight years to accomplish that goal. Then I went back to Harvard for a couple of years as dean. Professor Sterling i'lcMurrin \Vas appointed Commissioner of Education, Ribicoff as Secretary of HEW. Ribicoff
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 9 (IX), 4/9/1986, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • if he called himself. It may not be logged in. C: God. [Abe] Fortas is really all over this. Okay. In any case, let's get on with this. G: You think this is about April 4, 1966? C: I think this happened on April 4. Well, I just, maybe I'm wrong
Oral history transcript, H.A. (Tony) Ziegler and Charles K. Boatner, interview 4 (IV), 6/2/1976, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of State, and he certainly wouldn't have replaced him . But I think he was driving at Freeman and Udall, Ribicoff, people in other words who worked hard and were managers or advisers in the Kennedy election effort G: That's interesting . One thing I
Oral history transcript, Arthur E. Goldschmidt and Elizabeth Wickenden Goldschmidt, interview 1 (I), 6/3/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , the Fortases-- M: I was going to ask if the Fortases were among the group. W: Certainly. G: I'm the one who M: You knew Mr. Fortas in another connection? G: Yes, we knew each other from early days, I don't know why. introduc~d Abe to Johnson. I'm
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 4 (IV), 12/4/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
Oral history transcript, Ben Wattenberg, interview 1 (I), 11/23/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
Oral history transcript, Betty Furness Midgley, interview 1 (I), 12/10/1968, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • and VISTA thing. But I think that was because perhaps of the And six years ago in '62 I used the format of that television show, the phone-in television show, to help Abe Ribicoff in his campaign for the Senate. We did a telethon at the beginning
Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 1 (I), 9/18/1985, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • together an organization for Los Angeles in which every state delegation was assigned to a Kennedy person, and that Kennedy person, whether it was Abe Ribicoff or John Bailey or whoever--and there were a large number of them then--would literally live
Oral history transcript, William G. Phillips, interview 1 (I), 4/16/1980, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Phillips -- I -~ 27 figured Sarge Shriver kept her from becoming secretary of HEW in the Kennedy Administration. Abe Ribicoff got the cabinet post and Edith Green wanted it very badly and had made
Oral history transcript, Kenneth P. O'Donnell, interview 1 (I), 7/23/1969, by Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Bobby Kennedy, I don't know anybody that was on the floor that rea ll y 1
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , [Abraham] Ribicoff, was constantly pressing to get costs out into the later years so LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories
Oral history transcript, Boisfeuillet Jones, interview 1 (I), 6/17/1970, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • an acquaintanceship in the medical fraternity. In middle December of 1960 Governor [Abraham] Ribicoff called me from Connecticut and said that this job of special assistant to the Secretary for Health and Medical Affairs existed in HEW [Department of Health, Education
Oral history transcript, Sidney A. Saperstein, interview 1 (I), 5/26/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • interesting. K: Can I have a little background on that? S: All right. First, maybe I ought to tell something that I noticed in your notes about what happened when [Abraham] Ribicoff came in [as Secretary of HEW]. When the election was over but before
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • have been something related to the cities and urban areas. G: This is about the time of the [Abraham] Ribicoff-- C: I wonder if it is. When were the Ribicoff hearings? Go get your calendar. August 1966. B: The first part of the hearings began
Oral history transcript, James A. Shannon, interview 1 (I), 4/9/1969, by Stephen Goodell (Item)
  • Folsom, Secretary Flemming, with [Abraham] Ribicoff and, indeed, with [Anthony] Celebrezze, and this carried right through John Gardner and [Wilbur] Cohen. So that this was not because of lack of access to departmental leadership, and by and large
  • funding; Marion Folsom and Arthur Fleming as secretaries of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW); changes in NIH under Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy; HEW Secretaries Oveta Culp Hobby, Marion Folsom, Abraham Ribicoff, Anthony
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 54 (LIV), 9/11/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • unsolved murder mystery of our times: death on the highway. And they come out full blast for our program, and the auto industry is looking for money. (Long pause) And [Abraham] Ribicoff became a major player. G: Was [Robert] McNamara's input ever received
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 55 (LV), 9/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to it? C: No, I don't have any recollections of his [reaction]. Then [John] Connor testified, and, by the way, [when] he testified before [Abraham] Ribicoff he started to put us in a defensive position because Ribicoff was pressing for standards later. I
Oral history transcript, Wilbur Mills, interview 2 (II), 3/25/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • welfare amendments; residency requirements; JFK’s Madison Square Garden speech; JFK assassination; 1970 Nixon welfare program; 1972 election; the role of vice presidents; the Mills-Ribicoff bill; Adam Clayton Powell; meat quota bill.
Oral history transcript, Wilbur J. Cohen, interview 3 (III), 5/10/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • with [Abraham] Ribicoff and I spent a lot of time with Adam Clayton Powell and the others and congressman [Phillip] Landrum, but as I look back on the period my greatest contribution to the whole area is the contribution which I really felt helped to unravel
Oral history transcript, William Gorham, interview 1 (I), 3/24/1986, by Janet Kerr-Tener (Item)
  • had some interests and came at it a different way. K: Was it [Abraham] Ribicoff who said it was impossible to govern HEW, when he left? G: He said that, right. But I don't really believe that; I just believe that the people who were selected
Oral history transcript, H. Ralph Taylor, interview 2 (II), 4/4/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • of Milton Kottler of the Institute for Policy Studies here in Washington, before the Ribicoff committee. He pushed hard the Ecco Neighborhood Cooperation Model in Columbus~ Ohio. ':Ecco 1 s been a failure, and has been recognized as such today. But what
Oral history transcript, Dr. Samuel Halperin, interview 1 (I), 2/24/1969, by David G. McComb (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh H: No, I don't think so. M: Let me preface questions of this nature with a statement that Health, Education, and Welfare as a Department had a reputation of being almost ungovernable before the coming of Gardner. Ribicoff
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 26 (XXVI), 4/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • him off with everything to do with the legislative program or everything to do with cities programs. I don't know. I can't remember when, and it was this kind of story that created that problem. We made [Abraham] Ribicoff actually part of this process
Oral history transcript, Horace D. Godfrey, interview 1 (I), 10/31/1968, by T.H. Baker (Item)
  • projects; Food and Agricultural Act of 1965; responsible for steering legislation through Congress; drafting process; Senators Allen Ellender, Herman Talmadge and Ribicoff; Mr. Moss; Food for Freedom Act; Food Stamp Act; Appalachian program; agricultural