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  • . This is the kind of thing that makes you think about Johnson's varied agenda. "Riesel wanted me to pass along his views that Horston [Herbert Holmstrom] [and] [Douglas] McMahon of the TWU [Transport Workers Union of America] are very much activists and that McMahon
  • know the President will talk to you about it." I said, "Fine." He said, "You know that Commerce Department Building, that's a big building? It's a whole square block." I said, "Yes, I know that." He said, "Well, as big as it is, it isn't big enough
  • case it marked my next involvement with Walker, because I got a call from Jack [Herbert J.] Miller, as I recall, who was then the assistant attorney general in charge of the Criminal Division, and someone whose name I don't recall who was one of Bobby
  • issued a statement late in the afternoon that he wasn't going to. . . . G: Cut back on the price? C: Cut back on the price. G: Everybody else, meaning U.S. Steel, Henry Kaiser. C: Well, we sent it to Henry Kaiser, U.S. Steel, Joe Block, the other
  • him to all those comments about Ford. The Lego blocks. Have we done Model Cities? Did I tell you about the Lego blocks? G: No. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories
  • HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- LXI -- 4 C: Well, this was crazy. It was just crazy for Staggers to continue to block
  • Taft-Hartley to block a strike, it became important at some point to leave that issue very fuzzy and keep management very much in doubt about whether we would invoke Taft-Hartley. And maybe even important to keep Abel in doubt, because in a sense
  • to block the merger, was supporting a request for a preliminary injunction and supporting the request that the commission (inaudible) sent this back to the commission. The threejudge court denied these requests and Harlan gave it to the court. In the middle
  • would lay the basis for some kind of emergency legislation to block the striking. It just lays out what we need for Vietnam. Vietnam was not enough. When you look at Vance's memo and you see he's talking about Titan, Minuteman, Polaris [missiles] moving
  • -- XXVI -- 8 entire new cities. And that ultimately evolved among other things into the "new-town-intown" concept which I guess comes later somewhere. G: And the block grants as well. C: Well, we talked about block grants but I don't think anybody
  • of the cabinet officers felt like options were blocked. Was there a great deal of friction as far as your staff was concerned and the departments? C: You'll have to ask them. M: You saw one side of it. C: Yes, you may not--I thought I had no problems
  • ://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 -- XXXII -- 14 building. It's a great big building. It's a square block." I
  • . There was some movie--we used to joke about the fact that we never got to see damn thing. We should at least see it. G: Flaming Creatures. C: Fortas had said [it] shouldn't be blocked or should be shown or something. That became an issue. Go ahead on American
  • . (Interruption) The problem that first struck me was the preparation of a legislative program for 1966. And that meant the organization of task forces and blocking out of areas of interest. Within a few days two things were very clear to me. One was that while
  • --when was the first time I talked to him on Sunday? G: It was early. Well, 10:30, 10:27. C: Yes, but that's 7:00 in Los Angeles. Sure. The next morning--we got Brown back in California, but we've got these people killed. We've got twenty blocks
  • Department and started talking about people, "in this room were people with blood on their hands" for blocking the bill. Standing in the back of the room, I said, "This is it. We are now at war." Back to my office, Rod Markley, the Ford guy, called me. Henry
  • tried to get the President in the legislative program to take on the insurance industry. Not take it on, but to--and this is my memo of, it's blocked out. But the date of his note to me is January 2, 1967. And [Warren] Magnuson was very much interested
  • Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- V -- 10 building block with Lyndon Johnson, which was you had to--you know, if he did get interested