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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 51 (LI), 8/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • we're back. I guess what this really reflects is--I just remember we got back in the business of-G: Monitoring the--? C: Then Johnson gets this letter signed, I guess, by just about every southern senator on May second, which--do we know what he did
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 31 (XXXI), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to be desegregated. G: Now let's talk about moving into the White House. Was the specific presidential assistant assigned to sort of monitor the War on Poverty or did it-- C: No. I think until before I got there, I think [Bill] Moyers was probably the most
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or not." (Laughter) But we moved on everything. We started monitoring government purchasing. I'm sure if you go into the records you'll see we wouldn't even allow the government to go out and borrow money over a certain amount without a clearance from the White House