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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 46 (XLVI), 5/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , none of which we ever put forward to the Congress. And you know, as the war went on you've got to remember that Meany and Lane Kirkland and the AFL-CIO were staunch allies of the President on the war. And they were staunch allies of the President
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 26 (XXVI), 4/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • probably--I don't know. I have no recollection of his talking about them except for his occasional jokes about Reuther, the Humphrey thing. But Meany was the labor establishment. Meany was labor, labor, labor. The AFL-CIO [American Federation of Labor
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • meeting last evening I expressed the interest of the AFL-CIO [American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations] Executive Board in a strong and effective merchant marine. We have now come to the conclusion that the best way to achieve
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 25 (XXV), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was then the AFL-CIO [American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations] lobbyist for [George] Meany's . . . . We must have had something going on in the economy because I had these meetings on the twenty-first and then on the twenty-fourth
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Steelworkers and the AFL-CIO [American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations] are just furious with Wayne Morse." We looked at. . . . Well, no, let's see. Okay. G: Now there was a meeting in your office on July 26. (Interruption) C
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • AFL-CIO [American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations] support for the reorganization. So that's why it ended up where it ended up. G: Made sense politically. (Interruption) There were criticisms that this represented a de
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • he'd go along. But he grossly misestimated his AFL-CIO [American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations] International presidents because when we announced the thing, all hell broke loose in the labor movement. And LBJ