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Administrative secretary, and friend, DOUGLAS BARRETT (d. 1985) on Goodwin Knight's governor's office, 1953-1958: transition from Governor Earl Warren, working with labor, the 1956 Republican national convention and the Knowland-Knight "Big Switch" in
1958; the California Youth Authority, 1958-1965. Administrative secretary TOM M. BRIGHT (b. 1907), on the Knight years, 1953-1958, dynamics and policy-making, the press and working with the public. Office routine, staff, and reflections on personal qualities and habits of Knight as seen by private secretary SADIE PERLIN GROVES (b.
1916). MARYALICE LEMMON on gubernatorial style of Warren, Knight, and Edmund G. Brown, Sr. Legislative secretary and "senate parliamentarian" PAUL MASON (b. 1898) on working with the legislature on State Water Plan and Board of Equalization, and on gubernatorial campaigns of 1958 and 1962.
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Mason, Paul, "Covering the Legislature for Governor Goodwin J. Knight".