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  • Pancrazio's house was the chief of a tiny hamlet of three houses, called Califano because the Califanos had made it.

    The Lost Girl 1907

  • We made an earnest effort to meet Kennedy halfway, with tireless work by Joe Califano and Stu Eizenstat, proposing a health-insurance system that would be phased in incrementally as the federal budget permitted.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • We made an earnest effort to meet Kennedy halfway, with tireless work by Joe Califano and Stu Eizenstat, proposing a health-insurance system that would be phased in incrementally as the federal budget permitted.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • Others in the White House, such as Joe Califano, who was a domestic-policy adviser to Johnson, supported it from the beginning, and I thought they would gain leverage within the administration if we made progress in the Senate.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • He asked for the resignation of every cabinet member and accepted those of five: Joe Califano at HEW, Jim Schlesinger at Energy, Brock Adams at Transportation, Mike Blumenthal at Treasury, and Griffin Bell, the attorney general.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • I knew that Joe had strayed from the administration in opposing the creation of a federal Department of Education, but I thought Califano was a gifted secretary of health, education, and welfare, and that he was strong where we needed to be strong, in the case of a Kennedy challenge.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • Others in the White House, such as Joe Califano, who was a domestic-policy adviser to Johnson, supported it from the beginning, and I thought they would gain leverage within the administration if we made progress in the Senate.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • I knew that Joe had strayed from the administration in opposing the creation of a federal Department of Education, but I thought Califano was a gifted secretary of health, education, and welfare, and that he was strong where we needed to be strong, in the case of a Kennedy challenge.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • He asked for the resignation of every cabinet member and accepted those of five: Joe Califano at HEW, Jim Schlesinger at Energy, Brock Adams at Transportation, Mike Blumenthal at Treasury, and Griffin Bell, the attorney general.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

  • Others in the White House, such as Joe Califano, who was a domestic-policy adviser to Johnson, supported it from the beginning, and I thought they would gain leverage within the administration if we made progress in the Senate.

    The Good Fight Walter F. Mondale 2010

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