Inside: A Public and Private Life

by Califano, Joseph A., Jr.

• ISBN13: 9781586482305
• ISBN10: 1586482300
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-30
• Publisher: Perseus Books Group

Summary

Joe Califano grew up in a tight-knit working class family in Depression-era Brooklyn. His parents instilled in their son a work ethic, sense of self, and devotion to Church that stayed with him as he rose through the ranks of America's ruling class. From Jesuit undergraduate schools to Harvard Law, influential law firms, Robert McNamara's Pentagon, Lyndon Johnson's White House, and Jimmy Carter's Cabinet, Califano was hard charging, effective, and committed to his causeswhether that meant reforming the military, working for equal rights for all, his struggle to be a committed Catholic in America, or finally his passion to combat addictions that ruin so many American lives. The book is calledInside, and that's where it takes usinside his public and private lifeas Califano worked in the power centers of three Democratic administrations. He shows us how hardball is often necessary to make government serve its people. Califano remained "inside" even out of government, representing theWashington Postand Democratic Party during Watergate. Insideis history, memoir, and a profoundly revealing personal drama of a powerful figure involved in many defining events of the last half century. It is a tale of how ambition, tenacity and courage, guided by deeply felt ethics, can move the world, from the inside.

Author Biography

Joseph A. Califano, Jr. held key positions in the Kennedy, Johnson, and Carter administrations as Defense Secretary Robert McNamara's top troubleshooter, LBJ's domestic affairs chief, and Carter's secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare. As HEW secretary in 1978 he started the first national anti-smoking campaign, calling cigarette smoking "slow motion suicide" and "Public Health Enemy Number One." In 1992, he founded The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse (CASA) at Columbia University.

Table of Contents

Prologue	p. IX
The Family	p. 3
The Early Years	p. 15
Born, Bred, and Branded Catholic	p. 21
A Jesuit Education	p. 32
A Harvard Law School Education	p. 45
Landlubber in the Navy	p. 52
A Bite of the Big Apple	p. 57
Political Awakening	p. 63
Comfortable and Catholic in New York	p. 67
Ringing Doorbells for Kennedy	p. 74
A Whiz Kid in McNamara's Pentagon	p. 86
In the Army on the Home Front	p. 101
Getting Fidel	p. 115
When Kennedy Was Shot	p. 128
Isthmus Insurrection	p. 130
Troubleshooting for McNamara	p. 137
The LBJ Years	p. 151
Recharging Batteries	p. 188
Washington Lawyer: Arnold & Porter	p. 191
Washington Lawyer: Williams, Connolly & Califano	p. 216
The Democratic Party's Cultural Revolution	p. 236
Watergate	p. 267
Putting the First Amendment First	p. 309
Washington Pals	p. 321
The Last Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare	p. 325
What's Next?	p. 372
My Own Law Firm	p. 379
Hilary Paley Byers	p. 390
Lawyer in the House	p. 400
From Washington to Wall Street	p. 413
A New Life	p. 450
The Annulment	p. 464
Confronting Cancer	p. 473
A Final Reflection	p. 491
Acknowledgments	p. 495
Photo Permissions	p. 497
Notes	p. 499
Index	p. 519
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