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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • the riots. I suppose three good examples would be Watts, Detroit, and Newark. We'll leave Washington, which is a special case, since it's your own home ground. Was there any essential difference in the way these riots developed as far as White House
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 26 (XXVI), 4/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . December 10, 1965. McPherson is sending me a clipping from the Detroit Free Press. "The Vice President in New York told the Free Press the cabinet had already spoken with him about the idea [inaudible] asks Congress. The Vice President, designated
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • if you can get it, but it would be good to have--I'd like to see the Sunday--this is my memo, September 4, 1966, 8:35 p.m. Sunday, where I say the ink changes of the [Jack] Valenti draft are mine. This may be--no, this is the speech in Detroit into which
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- LVI -- 11 here and I want to make sure we put in the book, which is we should certainly cover Detroit, the Detroit riots, and get
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 59 (LIX), 1/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • be striking that very night--Thursday, March 30--and the railroad unions were free to strike on that Friday night. I guess the railroads then in their own way got some injunction that prevented the railroad strike from taking place from a small union. We got
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 50 (L), 7/19/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • files of accepted desegregation plans. We believe Mr. Barry has been preparing strong protests against OE." I don't know how [Bill] Moyers got that with Moyers telling Cater to look into this very carefully. This is just a press statement. Some other
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 51 (LI), 8/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • included is Senator [John] Sparkman's, who urged that the new guidelines, which were tougher in terms of desegregation, requiring that free-choice plans result in desegregation, be held up until after Tuesday, March 1, the primary filing date. The President
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , incidentally, that both [Clark] Clifford and [Abe] Fortas were at that meeting. In any case, I never heard anything more about going to work for the White House until the day that Bill Moyers was announced as press secretary. And I was just reading that over
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • have to go look in the press and see that. What's remarkable about--in the context of this . . . I think the President was also much more comfortable once we got Pat Brown out to California. G: You did send an air force plane to Greece to meet him. C
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 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • movement and the legislation. But it's increasingly clear to me that we really left Morse out there to hang out and dry. G: This is a UPI [United Press International] dispatch, July 28. How was the administration able to facilitate the travel of government
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XXX -- 7 G: The press speculated that the administration was taking a tough position on the steel increase now, early in January, in order
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 41 (XLI), 1/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Ackley and Schultze are pressing for an immediate tax increase. McNamara then comes in--the situation was sort of--everybody knew you were going to have increased military expenditures, but McNamara comes in because he was worried about his own
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 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 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 29 (XXIX), 5/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office in Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Press indicates that you'd received no advanced word from Bethlehem [Steel Corporation] regarding their five
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 18 (XVIII), 1/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was McNamara: bang, bang, bang, bang, bang--facts, numbers, answers, what have you. Rusk was always eloquent. He was very persuasive, thoughtful. And then Johnson would come on and give a major pitch for what we were doing. The build-up---I must have--the press
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 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • where he ended up. G: Katzenbach would essentially take any settlement and scrap the guidelines. Ackley wanted to press to support the legislation on stabilization grants [grounds?] and national emergency grants [grounds?]. Wirtz was opposed to using
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 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 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 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 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
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Okay. C: I called out there. G: Did you learn about it from the President or did you read it in the press initially? C: No, I found out about it at 9:45 a.m. on the fifteenth of October. This is interesting. They don't even have the President
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remember doing a press briefing on how they were withholding capital spending. We suspended the investment tax credit. You ought to get the papers on that because that was quite a fight in the government. Fowler didn't want to do it. G: Okay. C: My point
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 15 (XV), 12/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the Quadriad, or we'll lay them out to Martin, and let's see what he-- G: The statement to the press was fairly conciliatory, though. C: Compared to the earlier draft. I did send the President a draft of a much tougher statement that said
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 42 (XLII), 2/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to surround it and know every angle and what have you, number one. Number two, it obviously helped bring that kind of intellectual economic community along once you went and have them supporting you in the press and in their parties and what have you
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • haven't had a president that's sophisticated. Partly also because the press would never understand stuff like this. Today it would immediately get leaked to the press and they'd have a better appreciation of the ramifications of the actions that were being