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...California Institute of Technology, who headed weapons research at the Pentagon in the McNamara years. In his final session, after a quick trip to Chicago for the funeral of Mayor Richard Daley, Carter named three more old hands. To run Health, Education and Welfare, Carter recruited Joseph Califano, Lyndon Johnson's domestic policy chief. To head the energy agency that he hopes to expand into a Cabinet department, Carter chose his house Republican, James Schlesinger, whose resume is getting to be as lengthy as Elliot Richardson's. One baffling choice: he picked New York Attorney Theodore Sorensen...
Finally the telephone rang. "I was on my way out the door," recalls Washington Lawyer Joseph Califano Jr., "and the Governor just said, 'Joe, I want you to come and help out at HEW.' " The Governor, of course, was Jimmy Carter, and the job was one of the nation's biggest: running the most visibly cumbersome bureaucracy of them all, the $140 billion, 149,000 employee Department of Health, Education and Welfare...
Night Reading. The Brooklyn-born grandson of an immigrant Italian fruit vendor, Califano, 45, should feel at home. Once described as the "deputy President of the Great Society," he helped launch many of the programs he will soon be trying to run. As a special assistant to Lyndon Johnson, he wrote so many memos for L.B.J.'s "night reading" that the President once testily asked another aide whether "y'all brought 'em up here by pack mule...
Late Sunday, for instance, he phoned the White House switchboard with the list of people he wanted to interview in Atlanta: "Tell them to call me." The indefatigable operator reached Washington Lawyer Joseph Califano, who was a special assistant to Lyndon Johnson, in the midst of a Georgetown dinner party. The bash included, in addition to Fritz and Joan Mondale, Washington Post Publisher Katharine Graham and a platoon of Washington journalists, among them Roger Mudd of CBS, Jack Nelson of the Los Angeles Times, and TIME'S Jerrold Schecter?hardly a crowd designed for secrecy. Nobody bought Califano's white...
JOSEPH A. CALIFANO...