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...support. "Let nature take its course," the President suggested. Johnson used all of his persuasive powers and sometimes threatened economic retaliation and the hot breath of the Lord on his detractors, "but he never suggested in any way that the law should be broken," says his former aide, Joe Califano. "In fact, no matter what we did, Johnson wanted a legal opinion to be sure it was O.K. with...
...Califano, the jolly domestic czar for Lyndon Johnson, was in a state of near ecstasy helping to sculpt programs on housing, civil rights, health and education...
...that Carswell had been reversed in 40 per cent of his 15,000 decisions. And inside the Senate it was the Dump Carswell Movement headed up by Senator Bayh for the Domocrats and Senator Tydings for the Republicans that pulled the final levers. "It was fantastic," Johnson aid Joe Califano said. "Ordinarily most people in this town are reluctant to use up their credit with somebody unless some personal advantage is involved. But this time nobody cared about anything like that. Time after time, men said things like 'I want to help, but I didn't know anything could...
...President Johnson and former Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Although a hero of the left, Clark was cited in recently leaked Government documents as one of the principal architects of the domestic intelligence operations worked out during the riots of 1967 and 1968. Also named in the documents were Joseph Califano Jr., a special assistant to President Johnson, and Paul Nitze, Deputy Secretary of Defense. The documents reportedly show that the White House had asked the Justice Department to step up the flow of information on black militants, war protesters and sundry civil rights activists. Clark admitted that he had instructed...
...Visiting Committee included a number of other prominent alumni, who met in subcommittees all day with students and faculty. Among them were Francis T. P. Plimpton, president of the New York Bar Association; Judge Henry Friendly, of the Second Circuit Court of Appeals; Joseph A. Califano Jr., a former aide to President Johnson; and Thomas G. Corcoran, a prominent Washington lawyer and New Deal official...