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Telephone conversation # 10572, sound recording, LBJ and JOSEPH CALIFANO, 8/5/1966, 1:00PM (Item)

Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968

Telephone conversation # 11174, sound recording, LBJ and JOSEPH CALIFANO, 12/21/1966, 8:45AM (Item)

Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968

Telephone conversation # 11175, sound recording, LBJ and JOSEPH CALIFANO, 12/21/1966, 8:45AM (Item)

Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

York, and two things happened while I was sick: one, I read James MacGregor Burns' book on Kennedy [John Kennedy: A Political Profile], and secondly, I sat in on a couple of meetings that my wife had at our apartment. And I got interested

Telephone conversation # 10442, sound recording, LBJ and JOSEPH CALIFANO, 7/28/1966, 3:30PM? (Item)

Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968

Telephone conversation # 10525, sound recording, LBJ and JOSEPH CALIFANO, 8/2/1966, 11:23AM (Item)

Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 11/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

: He told me that he felt he had a commitment. And he gave me the memorandum for the record that Robert Kennedy had written on September 3, 1964, reflecting his conversation with Saunders on August 1, 1964, in which Kennedy said that while the Justice

Folder title list, Personal Papers, Papers of Joseph A. Califano (Item)

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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 25 (XXV), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

general, I think he was never able to realize or feel that he had 100 per cent of Nick. He always had that lingering concern because Nick had been the assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel for Bobby Kennedy and then became deputy

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

attitude. C: And maybe some contrasts. During the--at least my experience on the receiving end in the Pentagon during the Kennedy administration was that they were--they pressed hard to be deeply involved in awarding contracts and who they went to. Indeed

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

--I'll talk to you specifically. During the Kennedy Administration we had had a system--Kennedy had started a system in which all major procurement announcements were sent to the White House to Larry O'Brien's office (inaudible) and they gave

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 31 (XXXI), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to the Kennedys and an underlying concern that any political organizations that were coming out of the Community Action Program would be Kennedy political organizations. G: Did the President see OEO [Office of Economic Opportunity] as sort of a bastion of Bobby

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

-- 14 I noticed something about Bobby Kennedy and it reminds me of something. We came back to Washington. I guess we set it up the day before, and the first order of business is a meeting on the airline strike at eight-thirty in the morning. And I notice

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Kennedy was assassinated. G: It shows a sense of timing. Was there an effort during this period, though, to keep the civil rights groups on board as much as possible, to keep them, for example, from getting involved in the Vietnam issue as Martin Luther

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 37 (XXXVII), 11/14/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

-- 2 C: President of the New York Central. To urge Johnson to support the merger. Saunders also went to Robert Kennedy, who was the attorney general, in July of 1964 as well, talking to him about the merger. At some point in 1964 Robert Kennedy

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

was [Robert] McNamara's lawyer for those hearings. You may recall that as we saw the major issue in the hearings, the issue was whether or not the civilian leadership in the Pentagon and President Kennedy, at that time, had the right, in effect, to censor

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

Ribicoff off. G: Was there a Kennedy versus Johnson element to those hearings because Robert Kennedy was very prominent and it seems that the witnesses associated with the Kennedys received a much lighter treatment than those who were not, or had not been

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

, I guess, for a forty-five-day extension, noticing that Teddy [Edward] and Bobby Kennedy wanted to stick in the resolution [the] requirement that he, the President, submit legislation to resolve the issue. What we did was simply pre-empt

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 48 (XLVIII), 6/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or another, in effect putting what was Senator [President?] Kennedy's executive order into legislation. By and large I think that President Johnson thought that order had been ineffective. Getting federally subsidized housing--housing backed by Federal Home

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

of "they're all sons of bitches" businessmen problem that President Kennedy had; we were sensitive about that. Nevertheless, we wanted to get some public signal out there because the press was saying, "Was there any response from the administration?" and what

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

or John Kennedy, or Robert Kennedy, if it's really a terrific speech, and he can write the best, you know that Goodwin wrote it before it's even delivered. And that's caused problems for him with everybody that he's worked for. But in any case, we

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

. Part of it was related to the fact that he believed, and I'm sure he went to his grave believing, that Bobby Kennedy wiretapped him. G: Wiretapped him? C: Wiretapped him, both in the year or so when his brother was running for president and Johnson

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 52 (LII), 8/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

don't think most presidents do. I mean, I think that's one of the reasons--they may do it once or twice early on, but I can remember [John] Kennedy once literally walked--the only meeting I ever went to, when he was President, with him, was over a covert

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 29 (XXIX), 5/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

sure, also they'd had their prior battle with President Kennedy. We did want to avoid the sort of "sons of bitches" stuff that Kennedy had gotten into. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson

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

was just so great we just couldn't do it. And there were incredible moments. I mean there was Bobby Kennedy coming over, raising hell about the closing of the Brooklyn Naval Yard. He'd just been elected senator and came in with Anthony Scotto one

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

don't think Kennedy was treated differently than any other senator. There is a note here for [Nicholas] Katzenbach to call Kennedy. I don't think there's anything directed at Robert Kennedy here by Johnson. The appointment--[Edward] Feinberg was well

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 18 (XVIII), 1/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

that Kennedy had had Diem knocked off and that there was concern that Kennedy and/or his administration may have in one way or another made some kind of a commitment to the people--who was the guy that succeeded Diem, I can't remember--that we may have made

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

: Well now, how close liaison did you run with the Justice Department? C: I personally ran no liaison with the Justice Department until after the riot. Vance did a lot of dealing with the Justice Department people, and with President Kennedy

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

determined to force the President to take a stand. [George] Smathers was for compulsory arbitration. [Ralph] Yarborough would speak against the Morse resolution. [Claiborne] Pell was not convinced we had an emergency. Senator Edward Kennedy was arguing

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 61 (LXI), 1/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

on the conferees. I notice we had [Najeeb] Halaby call Tripp [Juan Trippe?]; we even had U.S. Steel make some calls. We tried to get guys that knew them to-And the ambitious Democrats, like [Edward] Kennedy, even though they didn't want to vote against labor

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 15 (XV), 12/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

[Anthony] Kennedy in which he said he didn't promise anything to the White House. There was no subtlety; it was low interest rates, low interest rates, low interest rates. Then I brought Brimmer in to the President and the President started right off

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, as part of a big civil rights package. He complained after that that we were decimating his department and he hadn't really been consulted. F: Well now, as vice president, Johnson had had civil rights responsibility under Kennedy, and [Hubert] Humphrey's

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 17 (XVII), 1/5/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

to do likewise? Was this on his mind at all? C: Yes, I'm sure it was. To bring the Chinese into the Vietnam War, will they come into the Vietnam War, that was constantly a concern to the President. But just go back and think; Kennedy is assassinated

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

thing--and it may have been my call to Clifford--that he didn't want to get into the kind of stuff [John] Kennedy got into by calling them sons of bitches, and he clearly, he didn't want to get his fingers into the issues of things like the tax returns

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 32 (XXXII), 7/12/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

mean, Sylvester was hanging out there. You have to understand, Sylvester started with credibility in the Cuban Missile Crisis when the press made a big issue over [John] Kennedy's saying he had a cold and what have you. And Sylvester said

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

they got it. There was a whole army of army guys that did that. But I remember a call coming through from Kenny O'Donnell; Kenny O'Donnell said that President Kennedy did not want the Vice President [to] get any--I can't remember whether it was additional

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

for tight money it's the Fed. However, we should keep in mind that at least six of the seven members of the Fed are Democrats, one appointed by Truman, two by Kennedy, and three by Johnson. . . . The policy that follows is no different than any Board would

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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

the troops in until too late. And Abrams and I had worked on the Cuban brigade. When Bobby Kennedy ransomed them, General Abrams was the guy at--I forget the name of the camp in South Carolina--that was in charge for a while of training the brigade. I

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

, "the President's man." That's the title of a book, or almost [The President's Men: White House Assistants of Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry S. Truman, Dwight D. Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson by Patrick Anderson]. How do those books get written