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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that the President fire off a telegram to all the producers to head off, I have here to head off the [New York] Times; I don't know what that means, I think to head off, appeal to them not to follow the Bethlehem example. I then had a conversation almost from

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 55 (LV), 9/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--on the first of March. And it's interesting, we had a--I guess it's worth spending just a minute. This was the best way to unfold a new program. It's not related just to highway safety, but the whole transportation program. The night before the message goes up

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the campus called Fort USAFOX [Unites States Army Forces, Oxford], and I went down at the end of the year with John Doar to do a study and see whether we could bring them out. So we said, "No more federal troops; that's crazy, we can't get them out." So

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

. And there was a section of the criminal code under which they could do that. That's how he got to Kirksville. So I went through the [transcripts of the] hearings, and they were in the process of drafting a sworn telegram, in effect, an affidavit telegram, to get

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

himself or he had George Christian really take a shot at Romney on the brainwashed issue, and turned it into a national issue that devastated Romney in the campaign. But it's worth--and I remember talking to the President about that and I remember him

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. That's what all these meetings on July 26 are leading up to getting the union and the airlines to agree. At some point we made a decision that the President--that it was worth bringing them in to Washington. And my hunch is that that paper up front really

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

wanted to go up. He hadn't been able to see him play once all year, and he wanted to see him play, and he was kind of the star of the team. The President said, "Fine." He went up to see him that Saturday, and the President ran him down up

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

in as McNamara's star with a little--you don't have much independence when you work for any president but at least I had a little going in and that was important. But had all of those things screwed up, had I screwed up Watts, had I screwed up the steel

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

there, grossly misjudged the extent of the riot and the need for force to put it down, for a large presence. They began telegramming or calling the White House--and Lee White and I were the two people that worked on it--wanting federalization of the guard

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

getting telegrams from governors and mayors from the harder-hit cities like New York and Miami, Chicago. Jack Connor wanted to move to support the legislation. Ginsburg wanted to move to support it and base it on stabilization. Larry O'Brien wanted to get

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

value of his pay and allowances-- G: For himself, is that right? C: As a four-star general. So as LeMay started talking--and McNamara said, "Mark that page because when LeMay starts making his case I'm going to slide the book under the President's