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California Legislative Leaders : oral history transcript / and related material, 1977-1981.
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California Legislative Leaders : oral history transcript: and related material, 1977-1981Creator/Contributor:
Morris, Gabrielle S., interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Caldecott, Thomas W., interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Fisher, Hugo, 1921-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Lanterman, Frank D., interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Richards, Richard, 1916-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Allen, Bruce F., interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Burns, Hugh M., 1902-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Lincoln, Luther H., 1914-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Rattigan, Joseph A., interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Sumner, Bruce W. (Bruce Wilson), 1924-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Combs, Richard E.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
Interviews with legislative leaders during the Knight/Brown administrations. Copies of photographs and of supporting documentary
material inserted. Issues discussed include party organization and campaigns; California water plan; legislative reapportionment;
capital punishment and the Caryl Chessman case; mental health; civil rights; oil industry and politics; education; government
reorganization; etc. Interviewees, and titles of interviews, v. 1; Thomas W. Caldecott. Perspectives on the Republican Party
and the Legislature: A Prominent Assemblyman Reviews the Goodwin Knight Era. Hugo Fisher. State Senator from San Diego, 1958-1962.
Frank D. Lanterman. Crusades of a Republican Legislative Leader, 1951-1978; Water, Mental Health, Education, Ways and Means.
Richard Richards. South of the Tehachapis: A Southern California Senator Comments on the 1953-1966 era. Interviewees, and
titles of interviews, v. 2; Bruce F. Allen. California Oil and Water, and the Politics of Reform, 1953-1960. Hugh M. Burns.
Legislative and Political Concerns of the Senate Pro Tem, 1957-1970. With an introduction by Richard E. Combs. Luther H. Lincoln.
Young Turk to Speaker of the California Assembly, 1948-1958. Joseph A. Rattigan. A Judicial Look at Civil Rights, Education,
and Reapportionment in the State Senate, 1959-1966. Bruce W. Sumner. California State Assemblyman and Chairman of the Constitution
Revision Commission, 1964-1970. With these, 1 portfolio: copies of documentary material supporting Richards interview.
Date:
1977 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caApportionment (Election law) -- California
Capital punishment -- California
Water resources development -- California
Répartition des sièges -- Californie
Peine de mort -- Californie
Apportionment (Election law)
Capital punishment
Politics and government
Water resources development
California -- Politics and government
Californie -- Politique et gouvernement
California
California. -- Legislature.
Republican Party (Calif.)
Democratic Party (Calif.)
California. -- Legislature
Democratic Party (Calif.)
Republican Party (Calif.)
Brown, Edmund G. (Edmund Gerald) -- 1905-1996
Knight, Goodwin -- 1896-1970
Brown, Edmund G. (Edmund Gerald) -- 1905-1996
Knight, Goodwin -- 1896-1970
Note:
tape recorded interview conducted 1977-1980 by Gabrielle Morris for the Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library,
University of California, Berkeley, Calif., 1981 :
Phonotape also available.
Also available online.
Copyright by The Regents of the University of California. This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. Requests
for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Permissions Officer, The Bancroft Library, University of
California, Berkeley.
Type:
Oral histories.Physical Description:
print
2 volumes + related material
Language:
English
Identifier:
https://ohc-search.lib.berkeley.edu/catalog/MASTER_373
https://ohc-search.lib.berkeley.edu/catalog/MASTER_392
Origin:
CaliforniaCopyright Note:
Copyright by The Regents of the University of California. This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. Requests
for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Permissions Officer, The Bancroft Library, University of
California, Berkeley.