Inside A Public and Private Life

by Califano Jr., Joseph A.

• ISBN13: 9781586483388
• ISBN10: 1586483382
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-11-29
• Publisher: PublicAffairs

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	ix
The Family	3	(12)
The Early Years	15	(6)
Born, Bred, and Branded Catholic	21	(11)
A Jesuit Education	32	(13)
A Harvard Law School Education	45	(7)
Landlubber in the Navy	52	(5)
A Bite of the Big Apple	57	(6)
Political Awakening	63	(4)
Comfortable and Catholic in New York	67	(7)
Ringing Doorbells for Kennedy	74	(12)
A Whiz Kid in McNamara's Pentagon	86	(15)
In the Army on the Home Front	101	(14)
Getting Fidel	115	(13)
When Kennedy Was Shot	128	(2)
Isthmus Insurrection	130	(7)
Troubleshooting for McNamara	137	(14)
The LBJ Years	151	(37)
Recharging Batteries	188	(3)
Washington Lawyer: Arnold & Porter	191	(25)
Washington Lawyer: Williams, Connolly & Califano	216	(20)
The Democratic Party's Cultural Revolution	236	(31)
Watergate	267	(42)
Putting the First Amendment First	309	(12)
Washington Pals	321	(4)
The Last Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare	325	(47)
What's Next?	372	(7)
My Own Law Firm	379	(11)
Hilary Paley Byers	390	(10)
Lawyer in the House	400	(13)
From Washington to Wall Street	413	(37)
A New Life	450	(14)
The Annulment	464	(9)
Confronting Cancer	473	(18)
A Final Reflection	491	(4)
Acknowledgments	495	(2)
Photo Permissions	497	(2)
Notes	499	(20)
Index	519