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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 37 (XXXVII), 11/14/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • opposed the Penn-Central merger. (Long pause) In 1964 it would appear that the President had a meeting--this would be July of 1964--with Saunders and [Alfred E.] Perlman who was the other major businessman involved in this. G: President of the New York
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 46 (XLVI), 5/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , because New Jersey happened to be getting a lot of publicity because of the White House interest and because it was next to the New York Times which was covering it. But I noticed in these steno pads we had a problem in Wisconsin, and the issue came up
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 32 (XXXII), 7/12/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this stuff. In any case, picking the universities were, with some exceptions--I left the selection of the people we would see up to the people who would run the dinner. For example, we had Mac [McGeorge] Bundy do one in New York City. I'd have him, but tell
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • know, we couldn't get passed until Dr. [Martin Luther] King was assassinated. And even if you look at that--I remember proposing it. It's the only time--and I think if you look at the New York Times or something--I was mentioned in the twenty-fourth
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to be something between a young man and eventually a White House special assistant. Where are you from? C: Brooklyn, New York. Born and brought up in Brooklyn. Then to Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts, where I graduated in 1952, then to Harvard Law
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
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
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of aluminum that somebody brought me the wire on the power failure in the Northeast, which, if we're right here about times, occurred about five o'clock. I immediately went. It was a total power failure. New York City was knocked out. The LBJ Presidential
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 28 (XXVIII), 4/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and Semple, who are the two New York Times reporters that covered the White House while I was there, were so--and the Times was so much better than any paper, even the Post. Those two reporters just--I forget who covered it for the Post; I guess Bill Chapman
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 53 (LIII), 8/16/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was periodically covering the White House for the [New York] Times--obviously we gave him a backgrounder story the next day, saying that we were going to make a major push in this area. G: Had the [William Randolph] Hearst [Jr.] series already come out? C: Well
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 26 (XXVI), 4/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • force to a New York Times reporter. And subsequent shaking revealed that the President had casually mentioned it at the Ranch to a reporter there and that's how the story had gotten out. Any recollections of that? C: No, it doesn't surprise me. LBJ
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 59 (LIX), 1/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • attitude toward this type of development? C: Well, you'll recall in January of 1966 in the State of the Union Message he took a shot at [John] Lindsay and the transit strike in New York, indicating that he would propose some kind of legislation
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the Washington Post editorial, which said in view of the monumental problem, we weren't asking for enough money. And that was also the editorial position of the New York Times and many liberals. Secondly, the feeling that the bill was an instrument a) to help
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • one, wasn't it, in the [Washington] Post and the New York Times? C: The story was page one. Well, it's New Year's weekend. There isn't a hell of a lot of other news. G: What was the industry reaction? C: The industry was, well, the industry
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recall, was out of town, in New York I think, making a speech. I ran him down. I pulled him off the dais. He hadn't made the speech, sitting on the dais somewhere. I got him on the phone and I told him that we were contemplating a reorganization
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • bathing trunks to the JetStar and he dressed on the plane. At the same time, Lee White was sent to New York, and, as I recall, he and Collins, or Collins, after being briefed by Lee White, met with Brown at Kennedy Airport in New York. The purpose
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 11/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the whole East Coast or the New York City commuting problems. Whether that was politically significant to Robert Kennedy, I don't know. Ramsey took the position that the memorandum that Bobby Kennedy wrote was not binding on the United States because
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • problem because there were five governors and two or three mayors involved. And we had things like--at that time [Nelson] Rockefeller was governor of New York and [Robert] Wagner was the Democratic mayor of New York [City]. In Pennsylvania, [William
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 52 (LII), 8/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , Mayor Lindsay of New York, because of the settlement he had just agreed to with the transportation workers who went on their annual New Year's Eve strike. And we had no idea how we were going to draft that legislation at the time we put that in. We knew
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of dollars going out by competitive bids. We created a whole new procurement appeal system with one board LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on our side. Most reporters don't work hard enough to actually read the law. Weaver, wanting really to be secretary, wasn't about to create a flurry on this. About ten days later, Weaver called me frantically and said that the bond lawyers in New York
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 55 (LV), 9/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Can we get the original maybe, at the [LBJ] Library? April 21, 1966, 8:30 p.m., Thursday. It's from me and Jack Valenti and it attaches the reading version of his statement. Because I don't think this was in it. B: The New York Times says he ad-libbed
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 54 (LIV), 9/11/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ; it's clear we're not in the right world. What Nader's book, and perhaps even more important, the front-page cover the New York Times gave it, did in November was just say, "We"--the guys who were trying to do something--"were absolutely right." G
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 18 (XVIII), 1/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , "They're on television every night. They're on the evening news. Washington is--[Robert] McNamara and [Cyrus] Vance and [Roswell] Gilpatric and you and [Dean] Rusk--are all working and you read the New York Times and the Washington Post. The country
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • --and they were ready to go. They wanted to make sure we paid their expenses and covered everything which we ultimately did. G: Were they currently presenting a show somewhere in New York? LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 51 (LI), 8/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , and we got the story in the [New York] Times we wanted, which was that there was flexibility, and I guess we got back in the business of keeping a head count on these plans. (Long pause) [Inaudible] (Long pause) In our Civil Rights' proposals. . . . Now
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was it? On the first of November, on Monday morning, the New York Times ran this story about LBJ is "sputtering mad," and he called me. Even at the time it was amusing; I had a hard time keeping a straight face. He was chewing my ass out, furious about this story. He
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 15 (XV), 12/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had lunch with Fowler on Friday. C: Yes, on that subject I'm sure and at whatever point we knew--they must have acted that morning--Fowler called the President to tell him. Now on the sixth, the New York Times story, I don't know whether [Bill
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 39 (XXXIX), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of 1966 the New York Times carried a front page story by Ed Dale which said, "The Johnson Administration stopped trying to roll back individual price increases. The unannounced modification policy was confirmed today by authoritative sources." That story
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 50 (L), 7/19/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , the Desegregation Bill, and the economy, the issue of the anti-inflation tax is all on the front page. G: New York Times, yes. C: In any case, as you might expect, the South not liking them, and the North. . . . Here's Bob Byrd fighting the guidelines. It's
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • with the Atlantic Ocean and ends at the western part of New York State, and then there's nothing until you get to California. You never send me anybody unless they're from California or New York or Massachusetts," or what have you. So he wanted somebody from
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • that General Walker either ought to be stopped or relieved of command or what have you. It wasn't a booming, blasting, all-out issue when it first appeared, and the New York Times made it sort of a campaign. F: Mainly it was just among the few that were
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 49 (XLIX), 7/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • force that Andrews [Air Force Base] had. G: The JetStars? C: The JetStars. And saying that he wanted the cabinet officers using the King Air for short flights instead of wasting all the money it cost to fly a JetStar. So if they had to fly to New York
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Congress and the public. This was in the New York Times. Let's see, 9-13 [September 13]. C: I don't. G: To what extent would the administration, on something like this, brief the Republican leadership and supply them with, or furnish them
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://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 -- X -- 4 White and Governor Collins to meet Pat Brown in New York when he
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Financial writers on-- G: Does it indicate who you talked to? C: Well, obviously I gave Ed [Edwin] Dale the Times--I gave Bart Rowan a one-on-one and I gave Ed Dale of the New York Times a one-on-one, in the morning. And then I had Stanley Wilson, Al
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 33 (XXXIII), 6/13/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Justice] got very badly reviewed in the [New York] Times. Have you looked at it? G: (indicates no) C: [I was] surprised. Maybe someone will send me a copy of that book. G: Okay. Was there a key guy in Fortas' office that would be helpful? A clerk
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
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
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 41 (XLI), 1/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • thing we need, unless I'm mistaken--Max Frankel, I had to have leaked that to Frankel. I mean, he's the [New York Times] White House reporter; it's not bouncing around in Cambridge. 8:22, 8:20. It must have been [in the] paper. I must have been
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the President also--that was when we brought [Arthur] Goldberg in because Goldberg was up in New York and Goldberg had as a lawyer, if my recollection is correct, represented the steelworkers, which gave him terrific lines into the steelworkers before he became
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Get him." So I went hunting for Joe Zimmerman. All I had was the name. Found him in New York. Got him on the phone. G: I show November 16 in my-- C: No, he came down for a meeting we had on the thirteenth, on a Saturday. G: I see, yes. C: I
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)