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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 51 (LI), 8/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Well, I think what Wilson was--you remember, Wilson was the House man. I think what Henry was talking about were guys like [Harold] Cooley, who had a lot of power, and the southern committee chairmen, who were very angry about this and who were feeling
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : Was this with an eye of cost efficiency or--? C: Howard--what's his name--Harold-- G: Harold Howe? C: Harold Howe. No, the idea was that we were putting complicated, sophisticated programs into HEW, that we were giving them work to do that they had never done
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 50 (L), 7/19/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Wilson sends me this incredible memo, saying that--this was the provision in the Civil Rights Act; I'll have to look at paragraph B of Title VI. But Wilson concerned that the race thing is just going to just tear it with all our relations with Congress
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 41 (XLI), 1/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [Larry] O'Brien and [Henry Hall] Wilson up to see Wilbur. And they're seeing him on the unemployment compensation bill, but he's now got all the troops picking up anything they can about views on the economy and the tax thing. And he gets Mill's view
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 29 (XXIX), 5/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • else. While we're not just sitting there waiting for the meeting, Johnson says to me, "Get [Larry] O'Brien. Rev up O'Brien, and [Mike] Manatos, and [Henry] Wilson. Get them calling congressmen. Get congressmen to make statements attacking the increase
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 57 (LVII), 12/12/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- LVII -- 3 majority. And with the new House, as Henry Wilson's memo of November 22 indicates, we were faced with a continued
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • these senators what to say? C: Well, delicate, that's right, and also this was a tough bone to swallow. This was a very controversial piece of legislation. And the same thing from [Henry Hall] Wilson. The best (inaudible) House not in session is to persuade
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 32 (XXXII), 7/12/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • people that stood out in these meetings that you subsequently brought into the administration? C: I have to just go through the list. Whether we brought them into the administration or not, there were several of them, like [?] Dunlop, Jim Wilson
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 49 (XLIX), 7/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 5 its feet by that State of the Union Message because of all the proposals. They'd thought they'd have a rest. I notice here in these papers one memo of Henry Wilson['s] saying [that] the Speaker [John McCormack] and Carl Albert are just bone tired
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 52 (LII), 8/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 9 because [Henry Hall] Wilson sends him a memo saying that The [New York]Times is asking what we are going to do, and Ackley, and Johnson says, "I would not get firm in any statements." G: You said in your memo to him on February 23
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • no recollection of it but I'm sure I was on the phone. There, it would really be under the direction of O'Brien or somebody, with Henry Wilson on the House side and Mike Manatos on the Senate side, who would say, "You better call X, Y, or Z." Sometimes, I don't
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ] on the third. We wanted the telegram to go out on the second. We also had--let me mention one other thing--we also had this memo to the President from Henry Wilson reflects. We had lined up a host of congressmen and senators to issue statements. House Majority
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh Califano -- XLIV -- 12 30, I'm sure to find out what happened. Checking on me to see if I'm reporting accurately on what happened in the meeting the day before in my office. Tape 1 of 1, Side 2 C: On August 30 Henry Wilson tells
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . C: And the Sisk bill was unsatisfactory for a variety of reasons. It was also complicated because Sisk was sort of an upstart member. He wasn't on a subcommittee. I notice Henry Wilson's really zinging note about Charlie Horsky and Sisk
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 45 (XLV), 5/23/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . Financial writers on-- G: Does it indicate who you talked to? C: Well, obviously I gave Ed [Edwin] Dale the Times--I gave Bart Rowan a one-on-one and I gave Ed Dale of the New York Times a one-on-one, in the morning. And then I had Stanley Wilson, Al
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • dean at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton. I first talked to him and asked him if he would come down and be the staff director of a task force on government organization, which has probably done the best piece of work on government organization