Joseph A. Califano

Joseph A. Califano (2007)

Joseph A. Califano (1977)

Joseph Anthony Califano, Jr. (born May 15, 1931 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is an American attorney , former Secretary of State for Health, Education, and Welfare of the United States, and business manager .

biography

After attending the Brooklyn Preparatory School , he studied at the College of the Holy Cross , where he earned a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in 1952 . He completed a subsequent postgraduate study of law at the Law School of Harvard University in 1955 with a Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.). During his studies he was the editor of the Harvard Law Review . Shortly thereafter, he was admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia and New York State .

He then began his military service in the US Navy and after retiring from active service as a civilian in April 1961, he became an employee of Defense Secretary Robert McNamara . First he was Special Assistant to the Supreme Legal Adviser of the Department of Defense and then in July 1962 Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Army ( US Secretary of the Army ). Most recently, in July 1963, he himself became General Counsel to the US Secretary of Defense.

In July 1965 he was appointed by President Lyndon B. Johnson as his special assistant for domestic affairs.

After Johnson's presidency ended in January 1969, he worked as a lawyer and most recently was a partner in the law firm Williams & Connolly , a law firm with 200 attorneys based in Washington, DC, between 1971 and 1977

In January 1977, Joseph Califano by President Jimmy Carter as health, education and welfare minister ( Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare ) in the Cabinet appointed. He held this cabinet post until 1979. As Minister of Health, he campaigned for a smoke-free United States and saw the year 2000 as a possible time for smoke-free.

In 1983 he joined as a partner after Thomas E. Dewey named law firm Dewey Ballantine , which employs 500 lawyers based in New York City. Califano remained their partner until 1992. He was also a board member of Viacom from 2003 to 2005 and has been a board member of Midway Games and Willis Group Holdings since 2004 . He has also served on the boards of CBS , Chrysler, and the American Ditchley Foundation .

Califano is also involved in numerous other organizations and institutions such as the Council on Foreign Relations and the trustee ( Trustee ) of the Caring Institute , the The Century Foundation , the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts and the Urban Life Institute .

As chairman of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University , founded in 1992 , he has campaigned against drug abuse and addiction prevention for years .

Publications

In addition to the publication of his autobiographies , Califano was also the author of numerous contemporary history books. His main publications include:

• A Presidential Nation. Norton, New York NY 1975, ISBN 0-393-05528-0 .
• Governing America. An Insider's Report from the White House and the Cabinet. Simon and Schuster, New York NY 1981, ISBN 0-671-25428-6 (autobiography).
• America's Health Care Revolution. Who Lives? Who This? Who Pays? Random House, New York NY 1986, ISBN 0-394-54291-6 .
• The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson. The White House Years. Simon and Schuster, New York NY et al. 1992, ISBN 0-671-66489-1 (biography).
• Radical Surgery. What's Next for America's Health Care. Times Books, New York NY 1994, ISBN 0-8129-2413-4 .
• Inside. A Public and Private Life. PublicAffairs, New York NY 2004, ISBN 1-58648-230-0 .
• High society. How Substance Abuse Ravages America and What To Do About It. PublicAffairs, New York NY 2007, ISBN 978-1-58648-335-7 .
• How To Raise A Drug-Free Kid. The straight dope for parents. Simon and Schuster, New York NY et al. 2009, ISBN 978-1-4391-5631-5 .

Web links

• Joseph A. Califano in the nndb (English)
• Joseph A. Califano at the University of Virginia Miller Center of Public Affairs (English)