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...delay announcing federal budget cuts that would affect New York City until after the 1980 New York primary. "My pleas always fell on deaf ears," she recalls. But through dogged persistence, she occasionally managed to get her way. "I wanted Jimmy to fire [Health, Education and Welfare Secretary] Joe Califano long before he ever did," she writes. "I felt Jimmy could find someone who would do the job just as well and keep a lower profile." Carter fired Califano in July...
...made the obvious point that "any sexual relationship between a member of the House of Representatives and a congressional page, or any sexual advance by a member to a page, represents a serious breach of duty." Given the "special responsibility" of Congress toward the young, vulnerable pages, said Joseph Califano Jr., special counsel to the committee, which is also probing drug use on the Hill, "only one standard of conduct can be appropriate...
...purple mountain majesties, scaled new Reagan heights. He dominated the front page in photograph and story, arguing gently with Environmentalist Ansel Adams. He or events around him were the topic of the day for Columnists Haynes Johnson, Mary McGrory, Joseph Kraft, et al. Special Contributors George Reedy and Joseph Califano, both from Lyndon Johnson's White House, weighed in on Reagan. The Style section was a poster of the smiling Reagans on vacation. The paper's Food section explored the wonders of "oatmeal meat" (fried oatmeal patties), something Reagan brought up from his Depression childhood. The biggest business...
...Washington, which alone has the power to deal with a dilemma that far transcends individual states or health organizations. Congress, however, has been unable to agree on a plan of attack. In 1978, the legislators rejected a cost-containment drive led by former Health Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano. More recently, President Reagan himself campaigned on promises to curb health-care costs by 1982, but his Administration still has not produced a comprehensive program...
Just about wherever one looks in the U.S. Government now, one finds what Joseph Califano, former presidential aide and Cabinet officer, calls "stalemate." Since nobody is quite sure what to do, says Califano, everybody backs into familiar positions and stays there. America's answer to most problems of the past decades was to throw money at them. For all its vaunted budget slicing, this Administration cannot break the habit entirely. Consider the military budget. Califano insists, "Nobody knows how to spend an extra $34 billion for defense in one year." As Secretary of the Department of Health, Education...