Thank you to everyone
who attended and to all who supported:
Inside: A Public and Private Life
The 2009 Gerald A. Faverman Lecturer
Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
See the video (48 minute .wmv file) of
Joseph A. Califano Jr.'s speech at Michigan State University on Wednesday, April 1
10:20 a.m.
MSU Union Parlors B&C
Joseph A. Califano, Jr. is known as a Washington insider who has worked in the power centers of three Democratic administrations.
Listen to Part 1 of Califano's interview with Jack Ebling's WILS-AM (1320) radio show.
Hear Part 2 of Ebling's interview with Califano.
Says publisher Public Affairs: “Inside is 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.”
From a hardscrabble Brooklyn background, Joseph A. Califano, Jr. rose to work alongside President John F. Kennedy, President Lyndon B. Johnson and President Jimmy Carter before founding the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.
Says Califano about the role he’s played in history:
“Where else could a kid from Brooklyn—who played punch ball on the street, bought loosies at a penny a cigarette, and stole cake from a bakery truck on the same day he served Mass as an altar boy—sit in the Pentagon E Ring, White House West Wing and Fortune 500 board rooms, walk the secret tunnels of Capitol Hill, and lead Washington and Wall Street law firms?
Only in America.”
The story he tells is of a street smart Brooklyn kid “got inside during an era of political and social upheaval so vast and swift as to be unthinkable….”
Don’t miss this story told by a Washington warrior who knows the inside details of one of America’s most stirring periods.
Download this souvenir poster (.pdf)
See the full biography of Califano's distinguished career.
This event is sponsored by the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research and made possible by individual donations and a grant from the Rollin M. Gerstacker Foundation through the efforts of Frances and the late Gerald Faverman, Ph.D.