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Harris had done little to check this party tendency to prefer reverie to reality. When President Nixon gave his televised State of the Union speech, the National Committee offered only Joe Califano, former assistant to President Johnson, to the networks for rebuttal. Complained one top Democrat: "Now Joe's a bright boy, but outside of Washington, who ever heard...
...When Lyndon Johnson in 1968 formed the Commission on Income Maintenance, he was not interested in obtaining an objective report on the subject from disinterested citizens. He had already made up his mind in favor of some form of income maintenance. His purpose, according to former Presidential Aide Joseph Califano, was to "try to get blue-chip prestigious commissioners on the line for something that was highly radical at the time." A President may also set up a commission to avoid dealing with a problem. Under pressure to do something about saving all the jobs that seemed threatened by automation...
Jobs Needed. Joseph Califano, former presidential aide to Lyndon Johnson, agreed and noted that the manpower proposal includes a provision for a 10% increase in job-training funds when unemployment hits 4.5% (about 4,000,000 unemployed) for three consecutive months, a level that some experts think could be reached this year. "If unemployment goes that high," argued Califano, "it's not manpower funds they'll need. It's jobs. The guys who are already trained will be out of work. You can make a case that we need a public-employment program right now." The primary...
Going well beyond that analysis, Presidential Adviser Joe Califano pronounced Big Steel's action a "major victory." Just seven days after Bethlehem, the No. 2 producer, announced its price hike, the steel industry had been forced into a partial "rollback." Minutes after U.S. Steel announced its move, Arthur Okun, chairman of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, summoned reporters to his Washington office and pronounced himself gratified. Spread industrywide, Bethlehem's increase would have filtered through the economy as a $1.1 billion rise in consumer prices. Now, he said, "the American consumer has been saved...
President Aide Joe Califano is combing the country, plucking ideas from thoughtful men about Johnson's last months in office, but most of his harvest is chaff. One suggestion for a final gesture: "Fire J. Edgar Hoover...