by Miriam Pawel
Sources: California Master Plan; California, the Dynamic State; Kerr, Gold and the Blue; Patricia Pelfrey, A Brief History of the University of California (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004); Adams, Fiat Lux; Bernice Brown, Pat Brown, OH; Author interviews with Jerry Brown, Casey, Damrell, Lally, Poché
“a laboratory” Rockefeller to Robert Gordon Sproul, n.d., ihouse.berkeley.edu/about/HistoryBook.pdf
I-House opened Ibid.
Schorske had turned down Cal “Carl E. Schorske: Intellectual Life, Civil Libertarian Issues, and the Student Movement at the University of California, Berkeley, 1960–1969,” an oral history conducted in 1996 and 1997, OH
“Fine boy but too intense” Diary entry, Mar. 8, 1960, EGB, Vol. 26
“I knew exactly what I wanted to do” Pat to William Flynn, Jan. 20, 1970, EGB, Carton 17, Folder 18
Phoebe Apperson Hearst Kerr, Gold and the Blue, Vol 1, p. 112
A 1959 survey Kerr report, Apr. 10, 1959, EGB, Carton 334, Folder 2
the chancellor warned UCLA Newsletter, Jan. 1959, EGB, Carton 333, Folder 21
“stark necessity” Kerr, Gold and the Blue, Vol. 1, p. 172
“the knowledge industry” “Clark Kerr - The Godkin Lecture at Harvard,” Mar. 1, 1963, posted by UCLACommStudies, www.youtube.com/watch?v=H67fOGXFgk0
“my university” Kerr, The Gold and the Blue, Vol.1, p. 162
“the most striking introduction to democracy” Nathan Glazer, “Notes on Southern California: A Reasonable Suggestion as to How Things Can Be,” Commentary, Aug. 1, 1959
“only in California” California, the Dynamic State, p. 13
“very impressed” Kaplan to Pat, Nov. 12, 1960, EGB, Carton 201, Folder 22
“some fine talks” Tobriner to Pat, Mar. 30, 1961, EGB, Carton 210, Folder 16
“to probe deeply” Tobriner to Yale Law School Dean, Apr. 4, 1961, ibid.
“a real Californian” Lurie to Pat, Mar. 20, 1961, EGB, Carton 209, Folder 17
“the purpose of education” “University of California, Berkeley. Charter Day, 1962. President John F. Kennedy,” Mar. 23, 1962, archive.org/details/cubanc_00005
“a bold and challenging idea” Adams to Kerr, Mar. 27, 1963, BANC, University Archives, CU-5.93, Box 1, Folder 1
“the intimate and effective relationship” Ibid.
“To look at the University of California” Adams, Fiat Lux, p. 7
8: Down but Not Out
Sources: “Squaw Valley 1960: How It All Began,” www.olympic.org/news/squaw-valley-1960-how-it-all-began; Elizabeth Rudel Gatov, Fred Dutton, Pat Brown, Oral Histories, JFK; May Layne Bonnell, Pat Brown, Jack Burby, Hale Champion, Fred Dutton, Richard Kline, Wallace Lynn, Cecil Poole, OH
a fifth of liquor waiting Memo, Dutton to Pat, Jul. 5, 1960, EGB, Carton 727, Folder 2
“Your Party, and mine” 1960 Convention program, Alexander Pope papers, Box 184, HUNT
“Toughest decision I will make” Diary, Oct. 15, 1959, EGB, Vol. 25
“Wrote statement at 3:30 am” Diary, Oct. 17, ibid.
“And there was Pat” Poole oral history, 1977, OH
“I often wonder” Bernice Brown oral history, May 17, 1979, OH
“I have no doubt” Tobriner to Pat, Mar. 17, 1960, EGB, Carton 201, Folder 7
“My greatest fault” Diary, Apr. 18, 1960, EGB, Vol. 26
“very tough—no sleep” Diary, Mar. 10, 1960, ibid.
“Chessman will be executed” Diary, May 2, 1960, ibid.
“the best brains” diary, Mar. 12, 1960, ibid.
Pat’s bewilderment Tom Lynch, OH
“I pleaded, urged” diary, Jul. 12–13, 1960, EGB, Vol. 26
“fatal mistake” Ibid.
“a nice guy” Champion to Dr. Eugene Lee, Sep. 30, 1960, EGB, Carton 727, Folder 3
“realities of the present” Dutton to Pat, Jun. 1960, EGB, Carton 257, Folder 5
five million passengers Meeting minutes, Feb. 1, 1961, EGB, Carton 396, Folder 1
“The industry which causes air pollution” Hahn to Pat, Apr. 14, 1959, Hahn papers, Box 3.2.1.2.1, HUNT
“I’ve become deeply interested” Press release, Jun. 3, 1960, EGB, Carton 201, Folder 22
“I was a little uneasy” Kay Pinkham to Pat, Nov. 7, 1960, EGB, Carton 201, Folder 22
“Why should I trouble anybody?” SFE, Oct. 16, 1966
“I knew I loved her” Diary, Oct. 30, 1960, EGB, Vol. 26
“He would be tough opposition” Diary, Nov. 10, 1960, ibid.
fundraiser at the Hollywood Palladium Nov. 18, 1961, White House Audio Collection, WH-057-003, JFK
“Let’s buy this place” Pat to Harold, Aug. 9, 1960, EGB, Carton 200, Folder 18
a sale of the property all but closed Probate file, Frank Schuckman, Colusa Courthouse
“old sentimentalist” Gertrude Rosenback to Pat, Dec. 20, 1962, EGB, Carton 227, Folder 3
“that old Mountain House” Pat to Rosenback, Feb. 5, 1963, ibid.
confidential Harris poll Harris poll, August 1962, Nixon Library, White House Special Files, Box 67, Folder 9
“I have never lost California” Text of Nixon-Brown Discussion, Oct. 1, 1962, Nixon Library, White House Special Files, Box 62, Folder 4
“a shoddy campaign” Oct. 25, 1962, Pope Papers, Folder, Pope Personal, HUNT
“reduced him to the nut house” Nov. 7, 1962, Dictabelt 6A, President’s Office Files, JFK
“two happy old buddies” Champion oral history, interviewed April 14, 1978, OH
9: “Water for People. For Living”
Sources: Cooper, Aqueduct Empire; Hundley, Great Thirst; California Water Atlas, California Office of Planning and Development; “California water issues, 1950–1966: an oral history”; Ralph Brody, Pat Brown, Abbot Goldberg, William Warne, Harvey Banks, Hugh Burns, Ron Robie, OH; Warne and Robie Papers, WRCA; Harvey Grody, “From North to South: The Feather River Project,” Southern California Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 3, Fall 1978; Peveril Meigs III, “Water Planning in the Great Central Valley, California,” Geographical Review, Vol. 29, No. 2 (April 1939)
“the water problem” Pat to Dan Beebe, Jan. 12, 1959, EGB, Carton 334, Folder 24
Muir pleaded “The Struggle for the Valley,” California Historical Society Quarterly, September 1959
half the country’s fresh fruit Cooper, p. 176
two valley towns Walter Goldschmidt, As You Sow (New York: Harcourt, Brace 1947)
passed seventy laws Cooper, p. 421
“essential to the future” Speech, Sept. 10, 1958, Pat Brown OH, “California Water Issues”
“doing the Lord’s work” In particular, see Abbott Goldberg OH
“our destiny of greatness” Jan. 22, 1959, address to the legislature
“sufficient planning” Pat to Walter Gleason, May 16, 1959, EGB, Carton 588, Folder 3
“unequivocal loyalty” McBride to Ralph Brody, Aug. 7, 1959, EGB, Carton 588, Folder 6
“Water bill passed” Diary, Jun. 17, 1959, EGB, Vol. 25
“growth and prosperity” Bill signing, Jul. 9, 1959, EGB, Carton 588, Folder 6
“Your place in history” Charles Corker to Pat, Jun. 9, 1959, ibid.
“My place in history” Pat to Corker, Jun. 12, 1959, ibid.
“the need for more water” Dutton to Brody, Oct. 14, 1959, EGB, Carton 335, Folder 28
“I had qualms” Feather River dam groundbreaking, Sep. 29, 1959, EGB, Carton 336, Folder 8
“water or no water” Norris Poulson, Jun. 27, 1960, EGB, Carton 364, Folder 10
“the cash register” Interview transcript, Oct. 28, 1960, EGB, Carton 365, Folder 5
“endless argument” Sacramento Host Breakfast, Sep. 3, 1960, EGB, Carton 364, Folder 23
“a great step” Warren to Pat, Dec.10. 1960, EGB, Carton 201, Folder 7
“frustrating fight” Pat to Warren, Dec. 14, 1960, ibid.
he wrote memos Warne to Pat, Jun. 12, 1959, EGB, Carton 334, Folder 24
“growth and development” Speech
, Jan. 13, 1961, Warne papers, Folder 1961
Kennedy arrived from Yosemite Remarks in Los Banos, Aug. 18, 1962, White House Audio Collection, WH-121-002, JFK; /www.jfklibrary.org/Asset-Viewer/Archives/JFKWHA-121-002.aspx
look back a decade later Warne to Pat, Apr. 10, 1973, EGB, Carton 30, Folder 15
10: The Turbulent Term
Sources: Kerr, Gold and the Blue, Vol. 2; Free Speech Movement Digital Archive and Oral History Project, BANC; Wolin, Berkeley Rebellion and Beyond; Governor’s Commission on the Los Angeles Riots, McCone Commission Report, #633745, HUNT; Becker, Champion, Dutton, OH; Dallek, Right Moment; Author interviews with Jerry Brown, Kathleen Brown, Joe Kelly, Kline, McInerny, Rice
an address to conservationists Transcript of the seventh biennial wilderness conference, Apr. 7–8, 1961, in Brower, Wilderness, 496996, HUNT
“geography of hope” Wallace Stegner, “Wilderness Letter,” 1960 and 1980, web.stanford.edu/~cbross/Ecospeak/wildernessletterintro.html
“most beautiful place” Pat to Art Seidenbaum, Jan. 29, 1970, EGB, Carton 17, Folder 22
“We painfully realize” Adams, Wilderness
an electronic counter James J. Rawls, “Visions and Revisions,” Wilson Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Summer 1980)
“more spectacularly endowed” California: The Dynamic State, p. 224
a city a week Ibid., pp. 50–53
“It stood to lose what it most loved” Adams, Fiat Lux, p. 16
“little pockets” Roy Bell OH
“California plans big” California: The Dynamic State, p. 222
“more glitter and glamour” Sacramento Bee, Jan. 8, 1963
“I didn’t dance” SFE, Jan. 12, 1963
“I have a deep sense of urgency” Pat to Warren, Jan. 11, 1963, EGB, Carton 227, Folder 5
“aimed at the people” Burby to Pat, Apr. 26, 1963, EGB, Carton 259, Folder 19
“I no longer believe it is possible” Burby to Pat, Dec. 4, 1962, ibid.
a leisurely European trip News reports, EGB, Vol. 22 and Carton 225, Folder 17
“the place went wild” Stanford Daily, Oct. 31, 1963
“that time is now” “Paving the Way for Freedom Summer,” Stanford Magazine, July/August 1996
“my Brown brain” Kathy to Lurie, Sept. 1964, EGB, Carton 27, Folder 5
“quite fascinating” Jerry to Lurie, Feb. 19, 1964, EGB, Carton 259, Folder 9
“as soon as possible” Jerry to Pat, Oct. 2, 1961, EGB, Carton 201, Folder 10
“property will win” Stegner, California, the Dynamic State, p. 220
“a long way to go” Pat to Kathleen, Nov. 9, 1964, quoted in Rarick, California Rising
events were unfolding Chronology and quotes that follow drawn from documents and recordings on the Free Speech Movement Digital Archive, www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/FSM/fsmtranscripts.html and Kerr, Gold and the Blue
“I say: Thank God” Commencement speech, Jun. 3, 1961, Santa Clara College
“This is not a matter of freedom of speech” quoted in Kerr, Vol. 2, p. 189
“suddenly goes smash” Wolin, Mar. 11, 1965, New York Review of Books
“violations of state law” Form letter, n.d., EGB, Carton 461, Folder 6
“its own moral downfall” Wolin, NYRB, March 11, 1965
“a thoughtful mind” Tobriner to Pat, Oct. 22, 1963, EGB, Carton 227, Folder 5
“It’s a big day” SFE, Jun. 15, 1965
Jerry found it riveting He first told the story publicly at his fiftieth Yale Law School reunion in 2011; also author interview Oct. 20, 2017
four communities in the center of the city “Poverty Areas in Los Angeles County,” Welfare Planning Council Working Paper No. 51, Apr. 1964, EGB, Carton 500, Folder 10
young, poor, and disillusioned Demographics and descriptions from the McCone Commission Report, archive.org/details/ViolenceInCity
“between fear and hope” Aug. 19, 1965, EGB, Carton 134, Folder 49
By Monday Testimony to McCone Commission, EGB, Carton 500, Folder 15
“slipped all restraints” Warne to Pat, Aug. 16, 1965, EGB, Carton 500, Folder 10
“universal bitterness” Becker to Pat, Aug. 30, 1965, ibid.
“The white backlash” Pat to Pearson, Aug. 20, 1965, ibid.
“an awful lot to be thankful for” LAT, Nov. 26, 1965
front page news San Francisco Call-Bulletin, Mar. 8, 1965
“our problems are many” “Ronald Reagan Announces for Governor: 01/04/1966,” Jan. 4, 1966, posted by CONELRAD6401240, www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VNUOO7POXs
“The Watts problem” Dutton to Pat, May 24, 1966, EGB, Carton 751, Folder 17
saw the primary results as a warning Dutton to Moyers, Jun. 10, 1966, Minnesota Historical Society, Hubert Humphrey Vice Presidential Papers, Box 1057, Folder California, 1966
Viva Pat Brown Cruz Reynoso papers, Box 67, UC Davis Special Coll
“a rough campaign” Telephone conversation 10299, EGB and LBJ, Jun. 13, 1966, LBJ Library
“rallying point for Communists” “The Morality Gap,” San Francisco Cow Palace, May 12, 1966
“a right held by all our citizens” LAT, Oct. 7, 1966
“double everything” Palo Alto Times, May 4, 1966
“developed an environmental conscience” Oxnard Press Courier, Oct. 12, 1966
Pat looked unusually grim Pat Brown at PG&E, Nov. 2, 1966, archive.org/details/csth_000055
“the boy next door” Ronald Reagan, Nov. 3, 1966, archive.org/details/csth_000060
“The people of California have been very, very good to me” LAT, Nov. 9, 1966
in a daze Swig to Warren, Nov. 25, 1966, Warren LOC Papers, Box 119, Folder 4,
“a Jolly Good Fellow” “Governor Edmund Pat Brown #1,” archive.org/details/casacsh_000068
set up a lunch date Christopher to Pat, Nov. 30, 1966, EGB, Carton 252, Folder 8
“Nina and I voted” Warren to Pat, Nov. 10, 1966, EGB, Carton 252, Folder 13
“it just couldn’t be done” Pat to Warren, Dec. 9, 1966, ibid.
11: The Browns of Los Angeles
Sources: Joe Wyatt, Ed Pauley papers, UCLA; CDC Papers; Bernice Brown, OH; Joseph Cerrell oral history, JFK; Dan Lowenstein oral history, UCLA; Bill Norris, Liberal Opinions: My Life in the Stream of History (2016); Author interviews with Jerry Brown, Kathleen Brown, Chernow, Damrell, Fisher, Lowenstein, Lujan, Maullin, Quinn, Rice, Surber
“a paradox: a desert that faces an ocean” McWilliams, in West of the West: Imagining California (San Francisco: North Point Press, 1989), p. 7
“The Other America” “50 Years Ago: Martin Luther King, Jr., Speaks at Stanford University,” Apr. 14, 1967, kinginstitute.stanford.edu/news/50-years-ago-martin-luther-king-jr-speaks-stanford-university
“We are still in control of our destiny” Sep. 30, 1967, CDC, Box 32
McCarthy met with the steering committee Jan. 12, 1968, CDC, Box 29
“hoopla and streamers” LAT, Feb. 9, 1968
King spoke again about the two Americas Transcript, CDC convention, Mar. 16, 1968, CDC, Box 32
“I have been trying for weeks” LAT, May 23, 1968
“the lights went out for me” Dutton, LAT, Oct. 28, 1981
voted for the progressive Henry Wallace SFC, Apr. 12, 1948
“I like it quiet” SFC, Jan. 12, 1973
“pride, love, involvement” Connie to Ed and Bern, Jan. 23, 1969, EGB, Carton 2, Folder 31
“two years out of public service” Pat to friends, Dec. 1968, EGB, Carton 16, Folder 10
“I am trying awfully hard” Pat to Harold, Jun. 26, 1967, EGB, Carton 2, Folder 13
“some degree of material security” Pat to Bill Flynn, Apr. 29, 1967, EGB, Carton 3, Folder 4
“When I looked at that Santa Barbara campus” Pat to Storke, Oct. 20, 1969, EGB, Carton 12, Folder 24
By 1965, the Los Angeles Unified School District Lowell Janes Erikson, “The LA Community College District Crisis, 1981–87,” LA Valley College, 1997
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nbsp; “students are not infantile” LAT, Nov. 26, 1969
“a religious cult” LAT, Jun. 30, 1970
“the problems we should try to solve” LAT, Dec. 30, 1970
“inherently corrupting” LAT, Mar. 3, 1970
“I wanted my grandmother to be here” Desert Sun, Mar. 3, 1970
requested the necessary state filing forms Judy Carter to Secretary of State, Mar. 2, 1970, EGB, Carton 17, Folder 21
“I was a good governor” Pat to McBride, Mar. 18, 1969, EGB, Carton 10, Folder 13
“Anything you can do to help” Pat to Marsh, Apr. 22, 1970, EGB, Carton 17, Folder 17
“the first application of systematic terror” Wolin, NYRB, Jun. 19, 1969
“a lily-white system of public schools” LAT, Apr. 8, 1970
“I don’t intend to remain secretary of state” LAT, Aug. 23, 1970
“I want to thank my mother” UPI, Jan. 4, 1971
“breath of fresh air” Bird to Jerry, Jan. 10, 1971, JB, Box B-22-4
“the Tall Sycamore” California Journal, February 1971
“a rich man’s preserve” Sacramento Bee, Sep. 5, 1971
could add 1.2 million first-time voters Maullin to Jerry, Nov. 30, 1971 JB, Box B-24-4
“collective voice of students” Notes, Apr. 24, 1971, JB, Box B-22-4
“What impressed me” Byrnes to Jerry, Oct. 13, 1972, JB, Box B-24-4
the most common reason cited Field Poll, Fall 1973, JB, Box B-32-6
“I don’t quite enjoy the crowds” San Jose Mercury-News, January 1971 by Henry Farrell, political editor
Notes for a speech Notes, May 19, 1971, JB, Box B-22-4
red-penciled staff drafts Various letters, 1972, JB, Box B-23-7
“a reason to live” LAT, Mar. 19, 1972
“I can be alone” Ibid.
(“if that wouldn’t be too outrageous”) Jerry to Karen, Apr. 17, 1971, JB, Box B-22-4
“congratulations, and happy birthday” Pat and Bernice to Jerry, Apr. 7, 1971, ibid.
“I have been almost totally absorbed in my work” Jerry to Karen, Apr. 17, 1971
12: The Candidate
Pat Brown, Eckbo, Houghteling, Lowenstein, Pew, OH; Author interviews with Jerry Brown, Evans, Faigin, Fisher, Kline, Maullin, Picker, Quinn, Reinhardt, Werner, Winner
“It’s largely an ad hoc job” Mary Jean Pew oral history, “Women in Politics, Vol. 3” Oct. 24, 1973, BANC
“I have a son” Pat to Cronkite, Sep. 26, 1973, EGB, Carton 19, Folder 2
