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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.

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Title
California Legislative Leaders, Volumes I and II; tape recorded interview conducted 1977-1980 by Gabrielle Morris
Creator
interviewer., Morris, Gabrielle S.,
interviewee., Caldecott, Thomas W.,
interviewee., Fisher, Hugo, 1921-
interviewee., Lanterman, Frank D.,
interviewee., Richards, Richard, 1916-
interviewee., Allen, Bruce F.,
interviewee., Burns, Hugh M., 1902-
interviewee., Lincoln, Luther H., 1914-
interviewee., Rattigan, Joseph A.,
interviewee., Sumner, Bruce W. 1924- (Bruce Wilson),
Combs, Richard E.
Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
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California Audiovisual Preservation Project
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cabeuroh_000300
Subject (Person)
Brown, Edmund G. 1905-1996. (Edmund Gerald),
Knight, Goodwin, 1896-1970.
Subject (Corporate)
California. Legislature.
Republican Party (Calif.)
Democratic Party (Calif.)
Subject (Topic)
Apportionment (Election law) California.
Capital punishment California.
Water resources development California.
Répartition des sièges Californie.
Peine de mort Californie.
Geographic Coverage
California Politics and government.
Californie Politique et gouvernement.
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Audio
Format
Oral histories.
Archive
The Library
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