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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

and the peace movement--working either for [Cyrus] Vance, or as general counsel of the army, or for [Robert] McNamara, so I had some experience. I remember telling the President--well, first of all, when I finally got to the President, when I finally started--I

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 55 (LV), 9/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)

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 (Item)

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 (Item)

/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 (Item)

: 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

Folder title list, Office Files of Joseph A. Califano (Item)

71 71 71 71 71 71 71 State of the Union Budget [empty] Robert Weaver File [empty] Wholesale [i.e., Wholesome] Meat Act Space Treaty Documents - State -- Unclassified Celestial Bodies Treaty Negotiating History --l Secret Celestial Bodies Treaty

Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 48 (XLVIII), 6/14/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)

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