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...disclose a rift between key advisers on Carter's postelection team. Sometimes a crumb of information is dropped between the soup and nuts at a Georgetown dinner party. At one such soirée, Diplomatic Editor Jerrold L. Schecter learned that former L B J Staffer Joseph Califano had been asked to go secretly to Plains to talk with the President-elect. The tipoff: Califano was tracked down at the same party by a White House telephone operator...
Deep Tube. It never arrived. After consulting his wife Lee and his lawyer Joseph Califano-the only people to whom Schorr identified his Deep Tube, he handed his resignation to CBS News President Richard S. Salant. Schorr was afraid that CBS would keep him on until the memory of his ethics committee performance had faded and then quietly fire him. He also thought that he would not be able to fit in easily again at the CBS Washington bureau. "I would doubt my ability to function effectively if reinstated," explained Schorr, who first joined the CBS News staff 23 years...
...Joseph Califano, who confected much of Johnson's domestic legislation, sees as the fundamental change that the great American economic pie has, temporarily at least, ceased growing. Almost every year since World War II, the economy expanded prodigiously, and there seemed to be enough for everyone. But alas, says Califano, in a slow-growing economy, this country faces the prospect of satisfying new demands from one segment of society by taking away from others. That is terribly close to redistributing the wealth, something that the champions of liberal spending have talked about but never faced before in such stark...
Joseph A. Califano Jr., 43. A magna cum laude Harvard Law graduate, Califano was general counsel to the Department of the Army and chief troubleshooter for former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara before moving to the White House in 1965 as Lyndon Johnson's top domestic aide. In that capacity he coordinated almost all aspects of the President's ambitious Great Society legislative program. Currently writing a book about the presidency, Califano is actively involved in national Democratic Party affairs, and has been particularly successful in gaining some equal air time...
...class of 310 at West Point, but he advanced rapidly through the Army and Navy war colleges and received a master's degree in international relations at Georgetown University. During the Kennedy Administration, he was named deputy to one of the Defense Department whiz kids, Joseph Califano, who later became President Johnson's domestic adviser. Califano, in turn, recommended Haig to Henry Kissinger as "one of the new breed of sophisticated Army officers...