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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 9 (IX), 9/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Neustadt and somebody else. The other thing I remember, and this came later, but sometime in early 1966 Drew Pearson started after me, saying that I was soft on the highway safety program, the automobile safety program, because I had once worked for [Robert
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : At some point when we were fighting over the highway safety bill and the traffic safety bill, Drew Pearson wrote a zinging column about me saying in effect I'd worked for LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 55 (LV), 9/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the criminal penalties were included in the draft and then deleted from the committee bill. C: Included in the draft that left us? G: Yes. C: (Long pause) Here's the issue paper. Okay. I've got to go. We haven't dealt with Drew Pearson . . . G
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • recognize his power as he did and he kept him around, but I don't think he ever trusted him--and he'd use him--anymore than I think he would trust Drew Pearson, but he used him. G: Was the FBI resistant to the ban on wiretapping? C: I think that the ban