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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 40 (XL), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XL -- 5 focused on the military expenditures, he says, " . . . temporarily restore the automobile and [certain] telephone excise tax [reductions
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • . Now, what kicked him off to call me, I don't know. F: You didn't have any rising volume of mail or telephone or anything like that? C: No, although it was clear in the papers. My hunch is that somebody called him. In any case, it was a complicated
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was within a couple of days, because McNamara did not want to give the President a chance to have second thoughts about it. He actually--I should check my telephone books of 1964--but I remember [Lawrence] O'Brien calling everybody [and] wanting to have
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XXXVI -- 7 talked about other situations coming up: telephone companies, the Teamsters, General Electric, Westinghouse, that this was a better case than those cases. We talked
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 18 (XVIII), 1/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • is in his office at 11:48. I arrived at 12:15 with the statement. You just look at this schedule. I mean if this is right, he telephones Fortas at 11:48. Okay? What does B-1 mean here? G: That's a Dictaphone belt number. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at this country today. Christ, the Catholic bishops a year ago on the maldistribution of wealth. In any case-And on Vietnam I hope these measures--on the tax thing we asked for restoration of the automobile and telephone excise tax reductions. We got them. We
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and interrelate them in conversation, whether it was on the telephone or in person, whereas McNamara just went item by item. You cleaned it off and you went to the next one. M: Point one, point two, point three-type thing. (Interruption) LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 32 (XXXII), 7/12/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and rang. It didn't go ring--you know, if you dial something (Califano demonstrates how the phone rang using telephone), it stops and rings again. The POTUS line just rang. It also couldn't be set. When you couldn't-you didn't have the power on your phone
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 34 (XXXIV), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • remember that Neustadt learned about going on the board as the President was talking to Wayne Morse on the telephone. I think Neustadt just was sort of ga-gaed and after the lunch said, "I can't. I don't want to serve on the board." I said, "It's over
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • and ask what could be done. (Long pause) G: You needed congressional approval to sell the balance of that l.4 million. C: We needed congressional approval and there was an effort, and [Lawrence] O'Brien did most of that effort. My calls in my telephone
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ball, my little toe. Johnson tells one of these Filipino mess boys to get some ice--forget about what their reaction was, just get some ice; put it on my toe so I can get on the telephone. So I went up to the house; we have to get some pictures of Camp
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • strike. I'm setting up some kind of a--I can't tell what this is. Whether it's GE or the telephone company or-- End of Tape 1 and Interview XLIII NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS ADMINISTRATION LYNDON B. JOHNSON PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY Addendum to the Legal
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the President of June 24, 1966, the memorandum of a telephone conversation with Drew Pearson of June 29, 1966. And as you can see, we by and large took a very tough line, including the inclusion of criminal penalties for the auto industry. I went over
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that whenever--this memo is at 6:25. Valenti's down at the Ranch. The President's over at [Dale] Malechek's residence. Okay? G: Yes. C: He returns to the main house at 7:53. All right? He gets Valenti's memo and he picks up the telephone and gives me hell
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • phone. The army signal crops set it up. G: It worked like a regular telephone? C: It worked like a regular White House phone. Pick it up and an operator answered. It was sort of overload. The signal corps--White House Communications Agency was run