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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 63 (LXIII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of the things [Richard] Nixon learned when he went with [Clement] Haynsworth and whatever the other guy was, and of the things [Ronald] Reagan learned with [Robert] Bork--[G. Harrold] Carswell--that Supreme Court seat is something that the Senate takes very
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • think it's one of the first, you know, one of the few, of our programs that they were able to knock out. I mean had Model Cities had another two years under its belt by the time Richard Nixon became president with, you know, seventy cities participating
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XXII -- 22 funding to get planning grants. We were really at the planning grant stage when [Richard] Nixon was elected
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 17 (XVII), 1/5/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Kennedy for censoring military speeches to make sure they complied with the State Department policy. Against all of that and coming out of the [Joseph] McCarthy era, which the President was very conscious of, and [Richard] Nixon who was still playing very
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and carrying the big stick, but the words should not be bellicose. And if you recall, they had campaigned in part on that theory, that [John Foster] Dulles' words had been too bellicose and that we'd-- F: Nixon's kitchen confrontation-- LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • did indeed work with the Labor people and some staff budget people, and they indeed liked it and they started urging it on Wirtz. And Wirtz became very high on the plan. Now, Nixon--I can't remember whether we started to run into trouble before
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • recommendations. To my knowledge we never had situations like the problem that Nixon's now having with [John] Knowles between [Robert] Finch and [Everett M.] Dirksen. And if we had any, I'm sure that the President was fully capable of ironing out the situation
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , even though the guy might have spent a lot of time in Texas. However, my hunch is that if you could look at John Kennedy or anybody else, that they'd be about the same about Massachusetts, or Nixon about California. I don't think that was extraordinary