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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 29 (XXIX), 5/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Vietnam. And that explanation did not satisfy Ackley. In any case, Ackley issued a statement. We really should try and get the AP [Associated Press] and UPI [United Press International] wires on all this because it's the only way you can follow all those
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , [George] Christian, the press secretary, or whoever was the press secretary, had to see him every day. In periods of domestic crises of one kind or another, or during that late September to March period I'd see him all the time because-(Interruption) M
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 18 (XVIII), 1/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • association with Stevenson with you? C: I have no recollection of that. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it was handled. That done, I may have even--I guess I wouldn't have--I may have even read him that part of the memo. In any case, that done, we were set for the press conference. I guess I was enough concerned about Connor that I did tell the President I didn't
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 17 (XVII), 1/5/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Although I think I ended up briefing the press on the issue, and therefore backing off from that I believe my side of the issue was that we should continue the deferment for married men. We had a little debate in the Oval Office LBJ Presidential Library
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • came in with this kind of a judgment. I should get this stuff out in the press. It's really indefatigable. I still do the same kinds of doodles. That must say something. (Laughter) This is the President, [commenting on] AP [Associated Press] 1962
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 59 (LIX), 1/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remember more about that. (Long pause) We then got some settlements, but again, the problem turned out to be the IAM [International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers], the electrical workers, the firemen and oilers, the sheet metal workers
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • attitude. C: And maybe some contrasts. During the--at least my experience on the receiving end in the Pentagon during the Kennedy administration was that they were--they pressed hard to be deeply involved in awarding contracts and who they went to. Indeed
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as chief executive to prevent inflation. I'll have no choice. I will have no chance to go to Congress. I am not announcing this wire so that you and your associates can consider the interests of your country, and you can act with complete freedom. The best
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- I -- 3 When Kennedy was nominated, I did some work, as I said, at the lowest level, just organizing and door-to-door campaigns and things in our neighborhood. F: Before we leave that, you were associated
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was going on in the press, what LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the report; the union [International Association of Machinists] basically rejected the report. The issue was whether the union would go on strike and whether we could get a law passed to extend the non-strike period. And we came head up against the problem
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 34 (XXXIV), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • union, [the] International Association of Machinists. Any insights on the appointment of that emergency board with Wayne Morse, [David] Ginsburg, and Dick Neustadt? C: Yes. At some point in April 1966, we decided that we would set up an emergency board
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 33 (XXXIII), 6/13/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XXXIII -- 2 G: The Outdoor Advertisers Association? Phil Tocker and . . . C: Well, I don't remember the people anymore, but they were very effective. But he wanted that bill, and he wanted that for Lady Bird
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 25 (XXV), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , unanimously incidentally, despite threats of filibusters and what have you. I have no idea what it took to do that but I'm sure it took something. But right around the time he goes to work on the board for what was then--the press was calling it a thirty
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : I remember dimly, so my recollection may not be right, that we were constantly pressing [Attorney General] Nick Katzenbach and the Justice Department to get more and more people into the voting arena in the South. The Wiley Branton move as a special
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • mad. It was that kind of thing. But, in any case, go ahead. G: Was the press there when he made that speech, "blood on their hands" reference? C: Yes, the press was there. It was an open session. And unless I'm mistaken it was in the paper. I can't
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • loans and, to try to get this done, and he approved doing that. We wanted Fannie Mae [Federal National Mortgage Association] to reduce the price at which it bought mortgages to slow down housing construction. And I think the point here to really
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • it. And he talked to the businessmen and said to them that the NAM [National Association of Manufacturers] and the Chamber [of Commerce] were not doing their work in holding in going after Congress for increasing spending by five billion dollars. He
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • he read it as. . . . But Johnson, as he indicated at his press conference, was opposed to compulsory arbitration. And then finally, on May 3 he . . . G: Anything on that meeting with Fortas, Fahy, Morse, et cetera on the second, May 2? C: No, let
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 51 (LI), 8/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • were encountering and the support we were losing on the Hill across the board as we pressed hard for school desegregation and civil rights generally. In the Civil Rights Act, there was a provision which said that desegregation meant assignment without
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the American press as cruel. And in terms of--and we were using tear gas to put down demonstrations which the Communists were inspiring in South Vietnam. The point that Moyers made in the meeting I notice, you know, let's talk about the throat slitting
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --they are covered by that now, but the standards are lower for trucks on braking and stuff like that than they are for automobiles. G: Were the Teamsters a factor in this at all? C: No. The American Trucking Association may have been. We really weren't focused
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of people. It's a conservative [organization] like the Americans for Democratic Action on the left. And the second way was in anti-communist seminars. Now, there was a little flurry and some news about that and some complaining in the press and arguing
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . But he got over that hump. Then Weaver held a press conference in which somebody asked him, "Do you want to be secretary of housing and urban development?" and Weaver said, "Yes," which created a whole raft of stories sometime in December. F: Did he? C
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 55 (LV), 9/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • interested, and giving them a chance of feeling they were on the inside. It was done in the evening so they could have an opportunity to call their press friends if they wanted to or call the interest groups they'd want to and get credit for giving them
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • months later when he knew me better, whether he would have wanted to see me every single night or not, I don't know. But it wouldn't have surprised me because he was very much publicly on the line. The press doesn't make a distinction between
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • came in, really very effectively got them together after a meeting of something less than an hour, as I recall. Took them all out to the press and announced that we were off to the races, and we were moving on the water problem. F: You didn't have any
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was pressing to increase the amount of materiel sold from the stockpile. It was one of several things we were doing. One of the key components of that materiel, and one that produced a lot of dollars for us, was aluminum. So I had some familiarity and so did
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 61 (LXI), 1/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • there any trades that you recall? C: No. It was just pure heat. I'm sure I talked to the [New York] Times editorial people, the [Washington] Post. It was a full-court press. G: Patriotism and-- LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 28 (XXVIII), 4/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was this type of arrangement where the press would come in and really have a--? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 39 (XXXIX), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • much more deeply involved in this for a relatively short period of time because of his desire to forge a compromise. G: The Vantage Point indicates that there was, as the newspaper clippings here do, that there was a lot of negative press with regard
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 57 (LVII), 12/12/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with Wilbur Mills. C: Wilbur Mills and the President. This is a meeting with Wilbur Mills and the President and myself, in the President's office, in the Oval Office as I recall. It was in connection with Mills' pressing for some restriction on spending
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 48 (XLVIII), 6/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was Louis Martin's presence hush-hush as far as the press was concerned? Why did you caution to--? C: Where is that? G: It's in that March sixteenth memo. No, I'm sorry. Maybe it's a different-- C: --From the press. We invited them up. This really
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to him along the way; he knew what I was doing. G: Why did you include the surtax proposal when you weren't going to press for it? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • publicly or not. Even if he didn't, I'm sure we did. I'm sure even if Eisenhower went out without seeing the press that we did not let the opportunity go by to say that he'd been briefed on the steel situation and he agreed with what we were doing. G
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 26 (XXVI), 4/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of community action. We were still full of--we had to make sure that the poor got their piece of it. We couldn't--when I say "we" I'm not talking about the President now because he increasing would press me. "We," I mean the social planners, the Reuthers
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • of it to Moyers who was in Austin, I guess, with [the] press corps. I had a hell of a time getting Goodwin, who was out on a sailboat, but we finally sent the Coast Guard after Dick. We got him. He wrote a statement, dictated it to my secretary. The time was so
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 32 (XXXII), 7/12/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • branch of government about the press in Washington, and Harry was obviously a very bright and personable guy. For some of them I think I did, I mean I may not have listed them in this memo, but I think I probably took Cater, I mean Gaither, or Levinson
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 52 (LII), 8/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • they recommended and . . ." and he never liked the memo to say, "You asked me for . . ." G: But was he thinking of a contemporary use for the memorandum to show to the press or congressional leaders, or was he thinking of a long-term use to sort of demonstrate