Word: califano
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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...
...message had been gestating since last summer, when White House Aides Joseph Califano and Harry McPherson began tapping experts at more than 100 colleges and culling reports from at least ten task forces. Their research was assembled in a black loose-leaf notebook that grew to 400 pages, divided into 20 categories, by the time Johnson was ready to put on the final touches. Enjoining his writers to keep it concise, Johnson ordered a dozen drafts, rewriting much of the speech in pencil on a yellow legal...
...separate interview last Saturday, Hershey was reported to decline comment on whether he supported the position set forth in Califano's reply to the Ivy League presidents...