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...TRIUMPH & TRAGEDY OF LYNDON JOHNSON: THE WHITE HOUSE YEARS by Joseph A. Califano Jr.; Simon & Schuster; 398 pages...
Discovering the truth about Lyndon Johnson is like conducting a monstrous archaeological dig, with authors desperately collecting the shards from his mountainous record. Some are intent on assembling the dark glints, while others gather points of light. Joseph Califano, his closest aide on domestic policy for 3 1/2 years, has delivered a hard, pure nugget of L.B.J. that is close to the truth. Califano was there taking notes...
...deviousness, the bullying and the lying, which ultimately consumed Johnson, are reported so graphically in some passages that a reader must wonder how Califano or any other person could work for such a tyrant. "Unzip your fly," L.B.J. challenged Califano, when the aide believed he had cut a good deal with Arkansas' wily Senator John McClellan. "There's nothing there. John McClellan just cut it off with a razor so sharp you didn't even notice it." Califano still marvels over seeing Johnson crony Abe Fortas, by then a Supreme Court Justice, counsel the President on how the government should...
...Cabinet. "I dreaded this duty," he wrote later. Carter softened the task by gathering his Cabinet and asking them all to offer their resignations for consideration as he reordered things. Bad idea, he later admitted, after he had accepted the resignations of Treasury Secretary Mike Blumenthal, HEW Secretary Joseph Califano and Energy Secretary James Schlesinger. He should have done it quickly and individually...
McDonald's was flabbergasted. Through its attorney, former Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano, it warned newspapers that the ad was "riddled with error" and that further publication of such ads without corrections "would have to be considered malicious...