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- , of course they epitomized the other extreme of hiring kids fresh out of college, out of journalism school, at working them real to cover too much . hard, always cutting corners on low salaries, staffing and trying You can see I'm not a fan of UPI
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: Do you know how we hired Hugh Robinson? G: No. C: When I was in the Pentagon, Jack Valenti
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- see him As I said, it was a small political world. Austin then was divided into three groups: the downtown business and social group, the college group, and the Capitol political group. And I was still being a Mario Savio on the campus, although I
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- Hardeman, D. Barnard, Jr., 1914-1981
- of it in his guest box up there, and still had it look like a guest list. F: He even had Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. He probably wondered what he was doing there, but he was there .. Did you see much of him during the vice presidential years? W: No. F: Was he
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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 14 (XIV), 9/9/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
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- O'Daniel on the courthouse square in Marshall. It's fascinating to study the faces of the voters. They're all so intense and they're sizing you up. It's just like a stage play. You can just see them there sort of like a Greek chorus, just figuring you out
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- he, we called it run around or chased around with older boys was because Lyndon was more mature than anyone his age in Blanco County. B: Oh, I see. C: The young boys just didn't entertain him. He wanted to be with older boys and he always went
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Oral history transcript, William Reynolds, interview 1 (I), 6/16/1975, by Michael L. Gillette
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- ' secretary, in hopes of seeing Jenkins when Mr. Johnson arrived in the office. my first introduction to the Senator. meeting in this respect: ~Jr. I believe that was But I think it was an important right off the bat he invited me to come in and sit down
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Oral history transcript, Robert E. Lucey, interview 1 (I), 10/19/1968, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- also, that a minimum wage law in that small industry would not be easy to achieve. The king of the pecan merchants came to see me a few weeks later and brought his secretary along--probably to make a record of what I said and what the king of pecan
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- First meeting LBJ; the invocation at LBJ's inauguration; Chancellor Kiesinger of Germany; Hugo Black; Harry Jersig; the National Advisory Council for OEO; Sargent Shriver; Maury Maverick, Jr.; 1967 trip to South Vietnam to observe national elections
- --to one of the offices that had been functioning there for President Kennedy to see if they had any of the green azure paper. F: That's what that shade is. R: Azure is what they call it. live always just called it green. We of course didn't know what
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- Woods narrow in [on] Bobby Troutman, which is exactly what the committee's minutes reflect. When the question came down to reviewing whether they were going to have a single staff, whether it was going to be a composite, single committee operation--see
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- by Arthur Goldberg to honor Vice President LBJ; Hobart Taylor, Jr.; refusing to relax the EE requirements as a political favor; Donald Cook; John Wheeler; Silliman Evans; public utilities' exemption from executive order; cutting off Houston Light and Power
- , if you could, to describe, as you see it, the origins of the program of the commission, the kind of concerns that generated it, and so on. F: Fine. I think in a very direct way the origin of the program can be ascribed to the West Virginia prlmary
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- [For interviews 1 and 2] JFK campaign in West Virginia; decline of coal use after WWII; unemployment; national press on Appalachia; Mike Feldman; Ted Sorenson; Franklin Roosevelt, Jr.; public law 89-4 in 1965; Highway System first authority vested
- speak to that. See, this is a situation where he was not, obviously, coming in the office. He was not writing us any kind of informational letters. He was talking on the telephone occasionally and often to Lady Bird, I'm sure, but not to us much
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- Weber, Otto, J., Jr., 7/12/1920-6/5/2010
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 15 (XV), 12/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Why don't we begin with the discussion of interest rates and the increase in the discount rate
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: This was your first State of the Union Message that you worked on. C: Yes. The basic questions
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Let me ask you to discuss the whole question of government contracts and President Johnson's
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- . He, too, was an integrationist. Now any black leader today who asked for a hundred billion dollars would ask for it for blacks or a conglomerate of minorities. But not Randolph, not in those days. Now you see the strains of separation beginning
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- : Well, yes, to make sure that they were listening. was done at supper. But you see, that The Krims were in; the Krims were there. was there, and Busby had been with them through the years. stayed on as secretary for Busby. Busby And Marie Marie had
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- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- remember--he had a whole string of paranoid reactions to what he imagined somebody at the White House was setting him up [for], see. Well, this played 7 LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT More on LBJ Library
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Let me ask you to describe this visit to the LBJ Ranch on December 22, 1964, when you were still
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 26 (XXVI), 4/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comments by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: The President talked to me about rebuilding cities the first weekend
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- announced? G: Let's see. I believe he announced late. B: Very late. Yes, he announced on May 12, and he went to Texas on May 5. This is in 1948. He went to Texas on May 8. Before he left the office here-(Interruption) The story rounds out better if I
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- . GILLETTE PLACE: Mr. Busby's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 B: Let's see, Taft-Hartley was passed in Congress in 1947, the Republican 80th Congress. Their first two official acts when the Republicans finally regained control of Congress after
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: [It is possible] that Lee White and Harry McPherson would have more insights on [Daniel Patrick
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 18 (XVIII), 1/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape l of l, Side 1 C: In late 1965, when I went down to take the President through the legislative program--in July
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: We were working on the [Wilfred] Feinberg-- C: Had we finished Feinberg? (Interruption) C: I
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- served with? T: Well, let's see now. I was elected to the Senate in 1954 and he became vice president in 1961. Although I became a member of the Senate on Christmas Eve, 1954, I didn't come here actually physically until January of 1955. From 1955
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- : the business of the opposition is not just to oppose. You see what the new leader, the new president does, proposes, what his program is for the country, and then you help him on it insofar as you think he is 8 LBJ Presidential Library http
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- , but it had an appropriation. The Leamon piece says that Bobby [Kennedy] rode to the Hill with this young sociologist who finally enabled him to understand his point about delinquency when Bobby said, "Oh, I see. If I'd been born here this might have happened
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- through, and the President then started his campaign. I've never seen anything like it, nor are we likely to see it again. It was past the royal.progress; it was the visit of a holy man. I think this had a great deal to do with the Court fight
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- INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Joe B. Frantz PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: Let's talk a little bit about the crisis that erupted in the fall of 1968 over the Department of Labor reorganization plan
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Oral history transcript, Lawrence F. O'Brien, interview 6 (VI), 2/11/1986, by Michael L. Gillette
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- House staff busy preparing statements to be issued wherever possible, contacting press to see if you could get favorable editorial comment, all of it added up to exacerbating the situation with Mansfield. Mansfield wasn't going to take it. He
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- became ambassador to South Vietnam; Homer Thornberry's appointment to a judgeship; Carl Rowan as ambassador to Finland; Chester Bowles' and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr.'s appointments; White House responses to opposition from civilians as opposed
- to this district but to the entire state of Texas, I think. I don't know that I can say anything more about their per- sonal relationship. I do know that--you see, Jim Cain that we have spoken of, the doctor at Mayo's, married Alvin Wirtz' daughter [Ida May
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- began see- ing him on a regular basis to talk about the reconstruction and the afterrna th. B: Before I interrupted you, you Here talking about the need for some sort of investigative commission. C: Yes, it soon became highly desirable, \.;e thought
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- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- : I'm trying to recall when the first hearings took place. I would say probably in April [1968]. The first one that I recall so well-- F: Before you'd even granted a permit, or selected a site? C: Oh, heavens yes! That's the whole issue, you see
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- York Puerto Ricans on the grounds of the Washington Monument; SCLC lawyers Frank Reeves and Leroy Clarke; Coretta Scott King; Walter Washington's response to Martin Luther King's death; Ramsey Clark, Stephen Pollak, Fred Vinson, Jr., Matthew Nimetz
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: There's a final version of this memo, which I'd love to have. G: Okay, I'll get it. C: Okay? G
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- such a terrible burden, with really just people harassing him and wanting to see him and wanting to do this, and he had to give this person a little time and give that person a little time. And just the tremendous problems he has, not the Vietnams--of course
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- Jacobsen's early work for LBJ; protocol for entering LBJ's office; a trip to Camp David with LBJ; allowing LBJ to relax from the stress of his duties; Ambassador W. Tapley Bennett, Jr., Abe Fortas, and Tom Mann in the Dominican Republic in 1965
- never forget this moment, this time with you, to be able to see what a man like you, whom I know to be a good practicing Christian, to have this splendid example that you've just given me of the Christian spirit as applied to your fellow human beings
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- it was, they accuse whoever's in power of deliberately doing it, and that's how the credibility gap gets started. G: How would you contrast George Christian's performance with Moyers, or compare it? J: Let's see. I think George was more down to earth
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- Texas protesters arrested and later invited to the Ranch; Jacobsen's opinion of Martin Luther King, Jr.; clothier Louis Roth's anti-Vietnam stance; Martin Luther King's FBI report.
Oral history transcript, William H. Darden, interview 2 (II), 3/27/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
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- of good will in the Senate, not much partisanship or not much political wrangling. You had Senator Russell, and let's see who else: Senator Harry Byrd [Sr.], and Senator Johnson, Senator [John] Stennis and [Henry Styles] Bridges and [Leverett] Saltonstall
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- got Clark Kerr to validate. So the sequence is there, you see. T: I may want to ask you a little more about that because I think when I was in California I had a chance to interview Mr. Clark and also Thomas Pettigrew. F: Yes, Tommy was on our group
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