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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • to Pittsburgh in one last-ditch attempt to get the parties to settle before we brought them to Washington. Traditionally, big steel likes to settle in the White House. F: Why did you go outside [the Department of] Labor and get these two men? C: For two
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • if that weren't settled. So I assume maritime got settled though I can't find it here. And the issue became whether to send Wirtz and Connor to Pittsburgh on Saturday--this is a memo from me to the President on August 27, but I remember the issue became--let me go
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • suggesting that we send Wirtz, Connor and Morse to Pittsburgh, assuming Wirtz has settled the maritime strike. And I say, "If Wirtz has not settled the maritime strike I have some doubts about sending him to Pittsburgh. Get someone with more horsepower than
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • increases. As of this morning Pittsburgh Plate Glass had not moved. The president of Pittsburgh Plate Glass, Mr. David C. Hill, will be at your dinner tonight. Perhaps you LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
  • 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 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)
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . . . . One thing I notice here, this would be Thursday, August 25, I guess, "LBJ aides quietly visit slum areas," the Washington Post. We ought to do something about that. B: You've got a file on that. G: Do we? B: Some memos, [inaudible]. C: Well
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • would work on a bill--ask Larry about highway beautiful, which he really broke his pick on, and finally muscled out with a lot of help only to pick up the Post and see a story about Moyers and how Moyers had saved highway beautification; the list goes
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 37 (XXXVII), 11/14/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and a couple of calls from him back to me and a call or two here to and from John Macy. G: Would Heineman have taken the Transportation post? C: No, I don't think so, but he never got offered [it]. The only thing I ever offered, I offered Ben Heineman
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 63 (LXIII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that is the Washington Post wrote an editorial, saying that Warren ought to write another letter. "Let's go to another letter, please," or something. And the President called me to talk to Phil Geyelin, who by then had become the editorial page editor of the Post
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 26 (XXVI), 4/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was competent, and it was very important to put a black in that job or in a cabinet post to hold him up. And he had had a good career as a government bureaucrat. He wasn't in a class with John Gardner or [Secretary of Defense Robert] McNamara for example. Wood
  • 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)
  • ] Castro, and so on? C: Yes, I did. I talked to them. I didn't hold as many meetings as the Justice Department people did by a long shot, but on critical points I'd talk to them. F: Was your place considered kind of a command post, or was that somewhere
  • 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 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, 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 -- XIX -- 9 tabloids and maybe even the Washington Post
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 42 (XLII), 2/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 46 (XLVI), 5/24/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 34 (XXXIV), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: Did Morse feel that he was politically vulnerable in accepting this post and did he resist the President's-- C: He agreed during that phone conversation. I don't know how long that phone conversation lasted. He tried to get--I don't know when
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 49 (XLIX), 7/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with employment discrimination. We looked, I believe, at requiring--military installations maybe even had an order issued saying that you couldn't advertise your rooming house or your rooms on the post, on the military installation, unless you agreed to say anyone
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 54 (LIV), 9/11/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the Union stuff, these stories? B: I'll check. C: Because they're important stories. This is the [Washington] Post, I guess: "There with an agenda rivaling the original Great Society program in scope, President Johnson last night laid before Congress
  • 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)
  • ransomed from the Bay of Pigs--well, I also saw Bobby occasionally during the post-Bay of Pigs Cuban assessment which I worked on for Vance. This was really post-Bay of Pigs, I think. No, we're talking about early 1962, and when Vance was secretary
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 18 (XVIII), 1/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • because there was nothing written about it in the newspapers, nothing in the Post, nothing in the Times. Finally Arthur Sylvester, who was the assistant secretary of defense for public affairs, said, "You dumb ninnies,"--was a favorite expression of his
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 29 (XXIX), 5/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 40 (XL), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 57 (LVII), 12/12/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 59 (LIX), 1/16/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the Post or the Times, get them over in my office--I have a dim recollection that it was Ed Dale--and tell them we were going to put out even more aluminum. And that clearly was enough to break the price. (Long pause) There is one other thing I should
  • 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 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recommendation should be accepted. "I've got reports that have been submitted to the President on what was happening. I've got reports from Defense and Commerce and the Post Office because of the impact of the strike on the mails. I would not conclude
  • 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)
  • office. The way I get the story, the first you hear about it is when you read it in the Washington Post, and the first the President hears about it is when you tell him, or somebody tells him from the White House staff. And that he sends for Wirtz, who
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 15 (XV), 12/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with me if he read about it in the Washington Post the next day. Then, three, just the whole father-son relationship breaking up, the separation, Bill wanting to get out on his own. And I think he was worried about his family, whether his family would hold
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 23 (XXIII), 3/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 31 (XXXI), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 32 (XXXII), 7/12/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 33 (XXXIII), 6/13/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 11/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 39 (XXXIX), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 47 (XLVII), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 48 (XLVIII), 6/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Post-Presidential (Jan. 21, 1969-)