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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 55 (LV), 9/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
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- safety sailed through the Senate. That was really basically. . . . Then Bobby [Kennedy?] came in, I see, to join with the call for more . . . G: Did this irritate the President? C: I don't have any recollection of that. I think he just didn't want
- problem because there were five governors and two or three mayors involved. And we had things like--at that time [Nelson] Rockefeller was governor of New York and [Robert] Wagner was the Democratic mayor of New York [City]. In Pennsylvania, [William
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette
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- was sending [Henry "Joe"] Fowler to see every member of the Appropriations Committee to ask them to hold down spending. He said [Robert] McNamara would need a supplemental of somewhere between five and fifteen billion. Then he said if he asked for a tax bill
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
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- /exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XIV -- 2 within our power, the ability to break the price. Also, [Robert] McNamara was worried that we were operating with a blunderbuss. With aluminum we ought to find a more delicate, surgical way to do this. And I shared
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
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- : No, I didn't. I had had very good training from [Robert] McNamara in connection with the supersonic transport in which we had cabinet members on that committee and in which he dealt very toughly with them. And I felt that I was doing what the President
- 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