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Telephone conversation # 10572, sound recording, LBJ and JOSEPH CALIFANO, 8/5/1966, 1:00PM (Item)
  • Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968
Telephone conversation # 11174, sound recording, LBJ and JOSEPH CALIFANO, 12/21/1966, 8:45AM (Item)
  • Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968
Telephone conversation # 11175, sound recording, LBJ and JOSEPH CALIFANO, 12/21/1966, 8:45AM (Item)
  • Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968
Telephone conversation # 10442, sound recording, LBJ and JOSEPH CALIFANO, 7/28/1966, 3:30PM? (Item)
  • Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968
Telephone conversation # 10525, sound recording, LBJ and JOSEPH CALIFANO, 8/2/1966, 11:23AM (Item)
  • Kennedy, Robert F. (Robert Francis), 1925-1968
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 11/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : He told me that he felt he had a commitment. And he gave me the memorandum for the record that Robert Kennedy had written on September 3, 1964, reflecting his conversation with Saunders on August 1, 1964, in which Kennedy said that while the Justice
Folder title list, Personal Papers, Papers of Joseph A. Califano (Item)
  • , General Backup Abe Fortas, Death of 1968 Nomination Robert Kennedy Assassination RFK Assassination Kennedy's, Jackie's Marriage Appointment, Nicholas Johnson Kennedys, General June Safe Streets Source Notes inserted into JFK Assassination Located after
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 2 (II), 5/27/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • York, and two things happened while I was sick: one, I read James MacGregor Burns' book on Kennedy [John Kennedy: A Political Profile], and secondly, I sat in on a couple of meetings that my wife had at our apartment. And I got interested
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for their own constituencies. There was such a difficult and complicated relationship between Lyndon Johnson and Robert Kennedy that it's hard to compare that with any other relationship he had on the Hill. Kennedy didn't want to give Johnson credit for anything
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 37 (XXXVII), 11/14/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -- 2 C: President of the New York Central. To urge Johnson to support the merger. Saunders also went to Robert Kennedy, who was the attorney general, in July of 1964 as well, talking to him about the merger. At some point in 1964 Robert Kennedy
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 20 (XX), 1/28/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • not have been willing to do it--but he was going to stick the Kennedys all the way out there and all the way out front. And that was calculated at every stage. G: Was Robert Kennedy less committed to advancing the nomination? C: Well, no. I think Robert
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 25 (XXV), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • attorney general when [Byron] White went to the Supreme Court. G: Clark had been under Robert Kennedy also? C: But Clark was the Land's Division. He was a Texan and he was Tom Clark's son. Breeding in its own way was important to Johnson in that sense
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 21 (XXI), 2/22/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • attitude. C: And maybe some contrasts. During the--at least my experience on the receiving end in the Pentagon during the Kennedy administration was that they were--they pressed hard to be deeply involved in awarding contracts and who they went to. Indeed
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Ribicoff off. G: Was there a Kennedy versus Johnson element to those hearings because Robert Kennedy was very prominent and it seems that the witnesses associated with the Kennedys received a much lighter treatment than those who were not, or had not been
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on that because of the President. G: Let's talk a minute about the national defense needs. Did this impair the movement of troops? C: By and large [Robert] McNamara took the position that he could go either way. If we wanted the emergency board, he could
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 31 (XXXI), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • -hand now. I guess I was working for [Robert] McNamara by this time. Yarmolinsky had literally moved out of the Pentagon. Bob would not let him. He wanted to keep his hat as special assistant to the secretary and deputy secretary of defense and McNamara
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- LX -- 4 two Kennedys joined with the Republicans--[Robert] Griffin who is a very partisan animal--to try to stick it to Johnson was in his mind. Then, I guess on the twenty-eighth, we had a bipartisan leadership
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [Robert F. Kennedy] Stadium? C: --named RFK Stadium RFK Stadium. We ought to cover that. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 6 (VI), 10/17/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was [Robert] McNamara's lawyer for those hearings. You may recall that as we saw the major issue in the hearings, the issue was whether or not the civilian leadership in the Pentagon and President Kennedy, at that time, had the right, in effect, to censor
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the increase. He said we couldn't let it stand; it would kick off inflation; it would violate the wage-price guidelines and we had to roll it back. [He] told me to talk to people in the government--[Robert] McNamara, [Henry] Fowler, what have you
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • or John Kennedy, or Robert Kennedy, if it's really a terrific speech, and he can write the best, you know that Goodwin wrote it before it's even delivered. And that's caused problems for him with everybody that he's worked for. But in any case, we
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 61 (LXI), 1/19/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • on the conferees. I notice we had [Najeeb] Halaby call Tripp [Juan Trippe?]; we even had U.S. Steel make some calls. We tried to get guys that knew them to-And the ambitious Democrats, like [Edward] Kennedy, even though they didn't want to vote against labor
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 29 (XXIX), 5/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • sure, also they'd had their prior battle with President Kennedy. We did want to avoid the sort of "sons of bitches" stuff that Kennedy had gotten into. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 22 (XXII), 2/23/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't think Kennedy was treated differently than any other senator. There is a note here for [Nicholas] Katzenbach to call Kennedy. I don't think there's anything directed at Robert Kennedy here by Johnson. The appointment--[Edward] Feinberg was well
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 52 (LII), 8/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • don't think most presidents do. I mean, I think that's one of the reasons--they may do it once or twice early on, but I can remember [John] Kennedy once literally walked--the only meeting I ever went to, when he was President, with him, was over a covert
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 15 (XV), 12/15/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of Atherton Bean to the Federal Reserve Board. I don't know whether we'd put Thurgood Marshall on the Court yet. We had put [Robert] Weaver in the Department of Housing and Urban Development. We moved with [Andrew] Brimmer. Brimmer was a black economist
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • at the Pentagon. C: Let me start with the earlier meeting. G: Okay. (Interruption) C: On November 9, 1964, Secretary [Robert] McNamara and Cyrus Vance went down to the Ranch and I was not with them. They were armed with a proposal we had worked on since
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was then either Cy [Cyrus] Vance's special assistant or general counsel to the army. That was September 1962. We got into this--I shouldn't say we, I got into it on the Saturday before the Sunday night in which the rioting really hit its peak. Mr. [Robert
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • with Robert Komer. C: This is [Gerald] Ford, Albert. I wonder if this is the right year? B: To the Cabinet Room for the congressional bipartisan leadership meeting. C: Yes. B: . . . with you for a review. Ford was there. Tom Johnson made notes
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 18 (XVIII), 1/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , "They're on television every night. They're on the evening news. Washington is--[Robert] McNamara and [Cyrus] Vance and [Roswell] Gilpatric and you and [Dean] Rusk--are all working and you read the New York Times and the Washington Post. The country
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 32 (XXXII), 7/12/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • mean, I do remember at the University of Chicago, if I can find them, an economist from Northwest[ern University], Robert Eisner, laying into us on the war, but in terms of--you know, I would go around the table. . . . Ah, here's New York. G: You were
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 5 (V), 9/12/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • , who at that time was Secretary [Robert] Weaver, would become the acting secretary of housing and urban development. F: Why was that put in? C: I don't know. LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 7 (VII), 6/17/1970, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • was the deputy budget director, talked to Ehrlichman or [H. R.] Haldeman. I also talked to [Robert F.] Ellsworth and I think some of us talked to [Robert P.] Mayo, I don't LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 63 (LXIII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • things, little footnotes to history here: when Robert Kennedy died, we lost the liberal vote on the Judiciary Committee. We tried to get Goodell put on in his place, but Dirksen put his son-in-law on-- G: [Howard] Baker. LBJ Presidential Library http
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • helicopter support or something--without a clearance by the White House. I was appalled. When I was a special assistant to [Robert] McNamara, I got a call one day and I also found out that President Kennedy had cut back on Johnson's mess people and what have
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XLIII -- 2 were. As you might expect I--and I notice [Robert] McNamara as well wanted to include a statement that the Great Society was going forward. Everyone except Fowler now favored suspension
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 17 (XVII), 1/5/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : That was part of the price of passing the legislation which is why I think we ought to get it. Then also look and see if there aren't memos from [Secretary of Defense Robert] McNamara to the President suggesting that we make him [Yarmolinsky] general counsel
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the steel price increase because by ten in the morning, I've got--oh, my god, no by ten in the morning, I've got [Robert] McNamara, [George] Ball, [Henry] Fowler, Dryden [?], [Alexander] Trowbridge. No, this is 1966; I'm sorry. Oh no, I'm sorry. I've got
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • him to be demanding and very similar in many ways to [Robert S.] McNamara, whom I had worked for before, in the sense that he wanted things done very rapidly, wanted enormous detail, wanted options presented on almost every matter from the smallest
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 28 (XXVIII), 4/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • a little insight in one of those memos which we ought to use, which is that when Nicholas Johnson is talking to [Robert] Kintner--it's just an indication of the climate. He's talking to Kintner about one of the reasons that he ought to go back to Berkeley