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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the President's approval?" I said, "You've got White House approval," because I could not get an answer from the President either directly or through Jack Valenti. G: Try to describe, if you recall, your phone conversations down there. You would generally talk
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 13 (XIII), 11/17/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • relations with the business community. G: I notice, too, that you had a conversation with Don Cook with regard to this. C: You know he was a friend of the President's. I just can't remember what we talked about. I'm sure it was aluminum. (Interruption) Oh
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 40 (XL), 12/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XL -- 5 focused on the military expenditures, he says, " . . . temporarily restore the automobile and [certain] telephone excise tax [reductions
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 3 (III), 7/18/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • on water in the Northeast-F: You more or less set it up and let it resolve itself? C: --and if you looked at the steel or aluminum, you'd probably see fifty memos, to say nothing of telephone conversations. F: Did you personally go in the cities? C
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 34 (XXXIV), 9/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . G: Did Morse feel that he was politically vulnerable in accepting this post and did he resist the President's-- C: He agreed during that phone conversation. I don't know how long that phone conversation lasted. He tried to get--I don't know when
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 44 (XLIV), 3/29/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • guess. God I'd love to get these belts of my conversations with him. We've got to figure out a way to shake those loose from her [Mildred Stegall]. Just to listen to them. Oh God, here's a meeting with Senator [Everett] Dirksen about LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 36 (XXXVI), 9/21/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , he really was incredible. He then talks to me. This is one of those rambling phone conversations about the Panamanians and the people in Panama taking to the streets. Get the aid bill changed. (Laughter) G: What is bothering him, then? C: I don't
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 56 (LVI), 11/21/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to the President of June 24, 1966, the memorandum of a telephone conversation with Drew Pearson of June 29, 1966. And as you can see, we by and large took a very tough line, including the inclusion of criminal penalties for the auto industry. I went over
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 18 (XVIII), 1/6/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , majority leader, so I don't think it was realistic to think that he would have taken the job. But I don't have any recollection of conversations with the President considering any of them. I don't think he ever would have offered it to Gene McCarthy, but I
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 19 (XIX), 1/27/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • was within a couple of days, because McNamara did not want to give the President a chance to have second thoughts about it. He actually--I should check my telephone books of 1964--but I remember [Lawrence] O'Brien calling everybody [and] wanting to have
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 1 (I), 4/14/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • and interrelate them in conversation, whether it was on the telephone or in person, whereas McNamara just went item by item. You cleaned it off and you went to the next one. M: Point one, point two, point three-type thing. (Interruption) LBJ Presidential
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 24 (XXIV), 3/16/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • submitting the domestic section. And then in the ideal world he'd have Goodwin write it and he'd edit it. The message went through I cannot remember how many drafts. In various conversations LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 35 (XXXV), 9/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • ball, my little toe. Johnson tells one of these Filipino mess boys to get some ice--forget about what their reaction was, just get some ice; put it on my toe so I can get on the telephone. So I went up to the house; we have to get some pictures of Camp
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 38 (XXXVIII), 11/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XXXVIII -- 2 G: But he took the initiative, as you recall. C: Oh, he took the initiative and pressed very hard. G: Do you recall what he said in those phone conversations? C: No, I
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 30 (XXX), 5/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , I had conversations with [Abe] Fortas and with the President. I guess at three-fifteen, and then later in the day. These led to a whole series of suggestions. G: Why Fortas? Why wouldn't . . . ? C: Well, I mean, you know, we must have been
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 41 (XLI), 1/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , in the price area. This led to conversations with the President in which he wanted me to, as far as the price of milk was concerned, to see if it was something we could move aggressively in the antitrust area against some of the big companies. There was--and I
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 28 (XXVIII), 4/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • to get much done in the wake of that report. But my recollection of conversations with President Johnson is that he also wanted to really shake up the television networks and the communications business, the broadcasting business and he put Nicholas
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 11 (XI), 10/28/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Califano -- XI -- 4 about it. Sometime after Watts or at some other point I do remember him in a long conversation talking about violence
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 14 (XIV), 11/18/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that because we didn't want the President looking like he was running around with an elephant gun. In some conversation I had with the President early on I said we really needed to know something about the copper market, and as I went around the government, we
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 12 (XII), 10/29/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • had twenty-five conversations with Roy Wilkins or Whitney Young for every one I had with Dr. King. King was a little bit lofty, a little bit off up there. Even if I look at the pictures I've got of meetings with black leaders, King is not there nearly
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 23 (XXIII), 3/15/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • " [Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy or Ship Construction Navy] stands for. And he'd like to reconsider the carrier question. The President said he did not want to reconsider anything until he got the figure down below sixty-one billion which was his way of really
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 31 (XXXI), 7/11/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as they thought it was going to be. But I do remember the day after, McNamara--I had very few personal conversations with McNamara when I was his assistant. It wasn't until after I got out of the Pentagon that we became personal friends. But I remember the day
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 39 (XXXIX), 12/20/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • /show/loh/oh Califano -- XXXIX -- 3 either after I met with the President or the day before and then I must have talked to them again, but he clearly, because I refer to an earlier conversation that day. The reason I'm hesitant about
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 54 (LIV), 9/11/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in the auto industry, they've got to be worried about safety. There are people out there. This is all the Department of Transportation. I do not think we talked to them early on about auto safety. I think most of our conversations on the Hill were with people
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 4 (IV), 8/21/1969, by Joe B. Frantz and Paige E. Mulhollan (Item)
  • someone you can talk with? C: Well, it was a matter of telling him something, and it was about a two-minute conversation. I talked to Walter Fauntroy a lot. He is someone you can talk with. F: Well, he is giving us some very detailed interviews
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • told me to call every governor in the Northeast and offer anything we could do. And I did talk to all of them and to Mayor Wagner several times, my last conversation I guess being with Swidler at quarter to twelve that night. But I think
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 26 (XXVI), 4/18/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • of those conversations were about labor issues, repealing 14-B-G: Minimum wage, I guess. C: Minimum wage issues, unemployment insurance comp issues, whether to invoke Taft-Hartley, whether to set up mediation boards, what to do about the railroad strike
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 57 (LVII), 12/12/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that every year she got more welfare money. And Johnson in a very spirited way disagreed with Mills on this, which was--normally he would just sort of nod and listen, let the conversation go on, whatever he thought. But he came in hard and disagreed with him
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 43 (XLIII), 3/28/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • for September 1 [1966]? Well, armed with that memo, which he had that afternoon and also spending that morning, you look at his calendar and [he had] several conversations with me, one with Fowler, one with [Russell] Long, about the investment tax credit. Met
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 60 (LX), 1/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • : There are a lot of notes on this railroad strike. C: (Long pause) Prior to the ninth of April and prior to the tenth of April, we had asked--I see here in notes of April 7 of my conversations with Wirtz and Reynolds--we had asked labor if they would extend
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 8 (VIII), 9/21/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • imperatives or, conversely, was all of this material, arguments that came from the Pentagon with regard LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 58 (LVIII), 12/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • . It was done down at the Ranch. I was much more in synch with him in this point in time, so there was a lot more conversation, oral conversation along the way. I think, to the extent I remember, the briefing was short; he knew where we were. I'm just going
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 9 (IX), 9/22/1987, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • know what was going on. I was orally reporting to him every night. G: What was the tone of your conversations with him? Was he seeking more detail? Was he intensely interested? C: Well, his standing was at stake; yes, he was interested
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 33 (XXXIII), 6/13/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • that conversation? C: I mean it was just one of . . . G: This was in August. August 9 [1965]. Not long after you arrived. C: I think the President very much wanted the beautification bill and I think he told about five people to take it over. I mean, I was one
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 47 (XLVII), 6/13/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • this as a patriotic duty using your name, saying you cut out losses. . . . Jim Wright . . . make us leave them there." And then back here-Well, these notes on third of February just reflects his desire to do something about impacted school areas and that conversation
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 49 (XLIX), 7/18/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • in a conversation about the automobile safety legislation. And the President said, "Tell GSA [General Services Administration] to take everything we think a car should have as a safety feature and put it on their cars or else. I want GSA to set strong safety
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 52 (LII), 8/15/1989, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • , "Ackley says this is within the guidelines. Don't tell me it isn't." He wanted that as well. That locked his people in. As I said, Connor wouldn't play. Ackley did not give me anything the next day, and I remember lots of conversations with Ackley after
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 63 (LXIII), 4/17/1990, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • support in the beginning. I think the conversation in which [James] LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 25 (XXV), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • the attorney general, didn't want to give him any cases. I don't know how many conversations I had with both the President and Clark on this subject, and Dirksen, on the issue of giving them work to do. Dirksen felt enormously embarrassed because he said
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 27 (XXVII), 4/19/1988, by Michael L. Gillette (Item)
  • as the administration was concerned. Ribicoff considered them, in my conversations with him, to be--I mean he agreed that they were critical of the administration but he thought they would help get more funds into the cities. I think it's fair to say we thought