The Browns of California
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“Without secret money” Town Hall speech, May 15, 1973, JB, Box B-22-4
(“He wanted to be a great president”) Interview, 1971, Donated Oral Histories Collection, 2113, Box 014, UCLA
“I was booed unmercifully” Pat to Nixon, Apr. 26, 1973, EGB, Carton 3, Folder 34
“I threw in a name” Tape 445, June. 13, 1973, Nixon Library
“It is by far the most powerful body” Press release, Aug. 3, 1973, JB, Box B-32-6
“I don’t want a bunch of sycophants around me” LAT, Mar. 19, 1972
“California has its problems” Jan. 28, 1974, JB, Box B-22-4
A Central Valley farmer sent $500 Dave Bryant to Pat, EGB, Carton 2, Folder 17
“more like his mother” Pat to Jim Gregg, Jun. 26, 1974, EGB, Carton 1, Folder 19
“There’s still the notion that a woman is best suited” Pew oral history
He spoke extemporaneously Transcript, Feb. 9, 1974, JB, Box B-32-3
Jerry placed third CDC Paper, Box 41, UCLA
“the night my father lost” Los Angeles Magazine, Fall 1974
“I’m not one of the pampered rich” Mary Ellen Leary, Phantom Politics, p. 169
“If ambition could crack steel” “The Mystic and the Machine,” Rolling Stone, Dec. 19, 1974
“people aren’t ready for it” Ibid.
[Garrett] Eckbo … helped design Wonderland Park, Eckbo Oral History, OH
“It’s rather isolated” “The Governor’s Son,” Family Weekly, Jan. 11, 1976
“It takes a very strong sense of yourself” LAT, Nov. 7, 1974
“an uncertain trumpet” Rolling Stone, Dec. 19, 1974
“We have the resources” Ibid.
“pointed to the Mansion” C. A. Maino to Jerry, Dec. 17, 1974, JB, Box E-28-2
“turn out this way” Finnegan to Pat, Nov. 9, 1974, EGB, Carton 20, Folder 19
“the impact you have” Pat to Finnegan, Feb. 13, 1975, ibid.
“The Jesuit ideal” Esquire, November 1974
“a fine boy” SFE, Jan. 12, 1972
“I love to read” SFC, Jan. 12, 1974
“tremendous human poise” Dutton to Pat, Jul. 19, 1974, EGB, Carton 30, Folder 9
“so deservedly proud” Houghteling to Pat, Jul. 8, 1974, ibid.
13: The New Spirit
Allard Lowenstein papers, Wilson Library, UNC; Bernice Brown OH; Author interviews with Burns, Dan Dooley, Diana Dooley, Evans, Fisher, Gardels, Gikovich, Kline, Lowenstein, Maullin, McGuire, Morgenstern, Poché, Press, Quinn, Robie
“I often have to turn” Invitation, Dec. 19, 1974, JB, Box A-29-4
“a crisis of the spirit” Prayer Breakfast, Jan. 6, 1975, archive.org/details/cbpf_000111
“What have we learned?” Inaugural address, Jan. 6, 1975
“there’s a darker side” Firing Line, Oct. 11, 1975
“I like people” Family Weekly, Jan. 11, 1976
“every time I leave my cell” Time, Oct. 21, 1974
“damn good joiner” Pat to George Hart, Jul. 26, 1971, EGB, Carton 18, Folder 6
“I don’t have the time” Family Life, Jan. 11, 1976
“We were always paraded” Time, Oct. 21, 1974
“attracted and repelled” NYT Magazine, Aug. 24, 1975
“see its limitations” Playboy, April 1976
“the family business” Ibid.
“always felt uncomfortable” Draft speech on democracy, May 14, 1973, JB, Box B-22-5
“blizzard of state paperwork” Memo, Feb. 26, 1975, JB, Box A-29-5
“symbolize the restraint” Firing Line, Oct. 11, 1975
returned hundreds of gifts Press release, Feb. 24, 1975, JB, Box A-29-4; Bill Stall form letter, JB, Box E-28-1
“I appreciate the ‘loan’ ” Berrigan to Jerry; Jerry to Berrigan, 1976, n.d., JB, Box E-33-10
“a misplaced cult” Form letter, Dec. 1, 1976, JB, Box E-31-7
“very, very busy” Pat to Jerry; Pat to Leonard, Jun. 25, 1976, EGB, Carton 8, Folder 30
“conventional wisdom” Playboy, April 1976
“He is contentious” NYT Magazine, Aug. 24, 1975
“like an energy source” Interview, Nov. 23, 1990, Lowenstein Oral History Project
“like a windshield wiper” KNBC Newscenter4 Viewpoint, Aug. 5, 1976, JB, Box E-31-6
“energy and talent” Nov. 23, 1990, Lowenstein project interview
“Dear Governor Brown” William Raiford to Jerry, Feb. 11, 1977, JB, Box F-36-3
“Jerry doesn’t need approval” NYT Magazine, Aug. 24, 1975
“Green sea turtles” John T. Knox oral history in “Statewide and Regional Land-use planning in California, 1950–1980,” OH; LAT, Sep. 27, 1977
“my theological training” News conference transcript, Jan. 14, 1975, JB, Box A-29-5
“understand my philosophy” Ibid.
“money that goes to people” News conference transcript, Jul. 1, 1975, JB, Box A-29-4
“the great disparities” Ibid.
“an overblown expectation” Firing Line, Oct. 11, 1975
“before you dump something over” News conference transcript, Mar. 11, 1975, JB, Box A-29-4
“a few great decisions” Jerry to Jack Valenti, Jun. 21, 1972, JB, Box B-24-6
“delusions of grandeur” Regents meeting, July 1975, JB, Box E-27-4
“Look at Gandhi” Joseph Kraft, Baltimore Sun, Mar. 20, 1975
Saxon had a saying Gardels interview
“the squid process” Jul. 1, 1975, news conference
At Regents meetings Transcripts, Jan., Mar., June, July 1977, JB, Box F-37-7
“He learned the Socratic approach” SFE, Jun. 26, 1977
“They don’t know the Lord’s Prayer” Transcript of conversation, Jun. 24, 1975, in Coevolution Quarterly, Fall 1975
“unable to decide” Bateson to Bill Coblentz, Regents, Sep. 27, 1977, JB, Box F-37-6
“added a new dimension” Carol Wilder, “Remembering Gregory Bateson,” Kybernetes, Vol. 42, No. 9/10 (2013): doi.org/10.1108/K-11-2012-0117
“not a sign of glory” Notes, Jan. 29, 1977, JB, Box E-28-2
“He’s a phenomenon” 60 Minutes, Mar. 7, 1976
“Junior Enigma” LAT, Jul. 6, 1975
“confront the confusion” Atlantic, January, 1978
“catalytic series of seminal works” Ferlinghetti to Jerry, Dec. 4, 1975, JB, Box E-31-6
“a great deal of interest” Grunwald to Jerry, Dec. 27, 1975, JB, Box E-28-1
“You haven’t paid very much attention” Pat to Jerry, Jul. 7, 1975, EGB, Carton 5, Folder 30
“the problems of a former governor” Mellon to Pat, JB, Box D-6-7
“the surplus of rhetoric” SFE, Jun. 9, 1975
“reduce the sum of human misery” NYT, Aug. 24, 1975
“Jerry is more private” Bernice Brown oral history, May 17, 1979
“Hope you build a house” Mrs. H. M. Cullers to Jerry, Sep. 16, 1976, JB, Box E-33-10
“the idea of starting a family farm” Jerry to Cullers, Nov. 29, 1976, ibid.
14: Jerry and Cesar
Sources: Jacques E. Levy Research Collection, Beinecke Library, Yale University (JEL); Tapes of UFW board meetings, UFW Archives, Walter P. Reuther Labor Library, Wayne State University; Author interviews with Jerry Brown, Chatfield, Ganz, Nathan, Press, Reinhardt
“position of power” Playboy, April 1976
“tool of the special interests” Assembly hearing transcript, Oct. 10, 1972, JB B-22-5
“In the future” Younger to Jerry, Sep. 21, 1972, JB, Box B-24-6
“treat all workers alike” Inaugural address, Jan. 6, 1975
“Dear Governor” Tape of Modesto rally, Mar. 1, 1975, Reuther Library, Wayne State
On Saturday morning Chronology from Levy interviews (JEL) and tapes of UFW meetings
“We wanted damn contracts” Tape of UFW board, Mar. 26, 1975, Reuther Library, Wayne State
“We walked out” Ibid.
“secret ballot electi
ons” News conference transcript, Apr. 10, 1975, JB, Box D-6-7
“provide the framework” News conference transcript, Jun. 5, 1975, JB, Box A-29-4
“an idea is more powerful” Firing Line, Oct. 11, 1975
“Cesar needed a movement” Interview, n.d., Paradigm Productions
“he played it straight” Levy interview with Nathan and Cohen, Jun. 19, 1975, JEL
“as much impact in New York” California Journal, August 1975
“no deus ex machina” Firing Line, Oct. 11, 1975
“to be a movement leader” Village Voice, Jul. 2–8, 1980
“I represent a generation” San Diego Union, May 3, 1976
On the flight to Maryland Description and quotes, Schell, p. 10
“What can a president do?” Schell, p.13
“a leader can set a tone” LAT, Apr. 5, 1976
Someone ripped a button off his suit Rolling Stone, Jul. 15, 1976
“I can really win” Newsweek, May 31, 1976
“Jerry’s contemplative” Nick Thinmesch, May 18, 1976, EGB, Carton 22, Folder 10
“This is my vocation” SFE, Jul. 25, 1976
“restore honesty” University of Oregon rally, May 1976, “Jerry Brown Campaigns in Eugene, Oregon, 1976,” posted by Knight Library, www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVogT5tAmhY
diverted to Rhode Island Tape of UFW board meeting, Jun. 13, 1976, Reuther Library, Wayne State
“Every eight years” Jun. 1, 1976, tape by Andy Warhol, for Interview magazine
they organized an event Tape of Jul. 24, 1976 UFW board meeting, Reuther Library, Wayne State
“the power establishment” Interview, n.d., Paradigm Productions
“just a beginning” LAT, Jul. 15, 1976
“they know more than Jerry” LAT, Jul. 16, 1976
15: To the Moon and Back
Sources: Rusty Schweickart, NASA Johnson Space Center Oral History Project, 1999; O’Mara, Cities of Knowledge; Tom Wolfe, “The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce,” Esquire, Dec. 1983; Leslie R. Berlin, “Robert Noyce and Fairchild Semiconductor, 1957–1968,” The Business History Review, Spring 2001; Stewart Brand, Space Colonies, A Coevolution Book; Coevolution Quarterly; Lindisfarne Tapes, Schumacher Center; Simon Sadler, “The Bateson Building,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Vol. 75, No. 4 (December 2016); Author interviews with Jerry Brown, Press, Richard, Robie
“more interested than most things” “Loser Tells All,” Village Voice, Jul. 9–15, 1980
“environmental crisis” Governor’s Budget Message, Jan. 10, 1975
“our true wealth” 1979 State of the State address, JB, Box F-22-7
“a chance to come inside” Sierra magazine, June 1978
“Can this man clean up California?” NYT, Oct. 17, 1976
“the secret of his success” Sierra magazine, June 1978
“there are absolutes” Ibid.
“If a great newspaper” Pat to Chandler, Jun. 25, 1976, EGB, Carton 21, Folder 10
“an era of limits” “Conference on Western Water Issues,” Caltech, May 17, 1979
“very euphoric” Lindisfarne talk, June 1978, archive.org/details/SimVanDerRynII.C7
“a separate office” Sim Van der Ryn, Culture, Architecture and Nature: An Ecological Design Retrospective (New York: Routledge, 2014), p. 104
“a quest for underlying unity” “Outlook” CA Department of General Services newsletter, July–August 1981
and full of far-fetched ideas NYT, Jan. 16, 1978
“Jerry Brown’s jojoba bean” Washington Star, Jun. 5, 1977
“He’s always been the one” Washington Post, Jan. 6, 1980
“Ecology and technology” LAT, Aug. 30, 1977
In its first decade O’Mara, Cities of Knowledge
computers would become common Interview with Faculty Association of California Community Colleges, March 1982, JB, Box B-31-3
“everyone is going to need one” Ibid.
“a thousand television channels” Esquire, Feb. 1978
“information is the equalizer” Ibid.
“the energy of character” “Growth in an era of limits,” Dec. 3, 1981, JB, Box C-6-10
“the future of America” LAT, Feb. 19, 1978
“ecology and technology” August 1977, Space Colonies, p. 146
“not a question of whether” Ibid.
“the Earth map is drenched” LAT, Aug. 12, 1977
“Going into space is an investment” Space Colonies, p. 146
“I hope Brown is still around” Chicago Sun-Times, Aug. 15, 1980
16: The Fall
Sources: Starr, “Lakeside Talk on History of Bohemian Club,” June 4, 1977; Frank Levy, “On Understanding Proposition 13,” Public Interest, No. 56, Summer 1979; Meyerson, “Proposition 13: Screwing the Poor,” Dissent, Aug. 29, 1978; Meyerson, “Brown’s California—After Proposition 13,” Dissent, Winter 1979; “Playboy Interview: Linda Ronstadt,” Playboy, April 1980; Author interviews with Meyerson, Quinn, Richard, Robie
“the best men’s club” Lakeside talk, Jun. 4, 1977, EGB, Carton 758, Folder 56
“no other club like it” Pat to Kathleen, Jul. 24, 1957, EGB, Carton 67, Folder 16
“Nothing human is alien” Newsweek, Nov. 25, 1975
“a new element” Lakeside talk, Jul. 29, 1977, EGB, Carton 758, Folder 52
no longer went to church LAT, Mar. 5, 1978
“A conversation with Pat now” Dutton oral history interview, Apr. 15, 1978
“delight in life” Wenke to Pat, May 1, 1975, EGB, Carton 21, Folder 5
“young man in a hurry” Oral history interview, Jan. 11, 1978, OH
“two different personalities” Oral history interview, May 17, 1979, OH
“anything that diminishes that stockpile of intelligence” Pat Brown oral history interview, Jun. 5, 1978, OH
Jerry’s tax bill Alexander Pope papers, Box 161, HUNT
“only an Assemblyman” Bane to Jerry, Jul. 20, 1977, JB, Box F-36-3
“the evil you know” LAT, Jan. 28, 1978
“a rip-off” LAT, May 23, 1978
Breslin visited Jarvis “Prop. 13: The Shot Heard Around America,” LAT, Jun. 5, 1978
“show some compassion” Pat Brown oral history interview, Jun. 5, 1978, OH
going through the plan Various memos, June 1978, JB, Box A-24-8
“over four million” Address to the legislature, Jun. 8, 1978
school budgets declined Meyerson, Dissent, Winter 1979
“cut the guts out” Pat Brown interview, Jun. 13, 1978, Media Resources Center Collection, UC Berkeley, archive.org/details/cabemrc_00002
“The people have spoken” LAT, Jun. 7, 1978
“a modern Boston Tea Party” NYT, Jun. 12, 1978
“Operation successful—patient died” Schweickart to B. T. Collins, Jul. 5, 1978, JB, Box F-36-10
“I knew it would work” NBC News, Oct. 10, 1978
“given a second chance” LAT, Nov. 9, 1978
“The Jarvis tide” LAT, Jun. 7, 1978
“I have an interest” Politics Today, July/August 1979
(“He’s not going to talk to the whales?”) “Jerry Brown Talks to Whales,” 1977, archive.org/details/cbpf_000082
“he will be bored” Jordan to Carter, March 1977, Office of the Chief of Staff Files, Hamilton Jordan’s Confidential Files, Container 34a, Carter Library
“prophets in their own time” May 6, 1979, Washington, D.C., JB, Box C-2-7
promising to fight “A Question of Power,” 1986, “Public Opposition to Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant - Historic Clip,” posted by eon3, www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kvSlVblE4I
“it might sound ridiculous” Washington Post, Feb. 25, 1979
“there isn’t much difference” Politics Today, July/August 1979
he was booed “Squeezing Money out of Rock,” New York magazine, Feb. 11, 1980
“My Boyfriend’s Back” “Linda Ronstadt Sings My Boyfriend’s Back to Jerry Brown,” posted by jpspa
nishfan3, www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-QmdzBYDWA
“we just like each other” LAT, Dec. 24, 1979
“Where Jerry goes” Politics Today, July/August 1979
Ronstadt had deliberately avoided using her celebrity Playboy, April 1980
if she ever thought about being first lady Ibid.
“genuine underdog sympathies” Mar. 10, 1979, Carey McWilliams papers, Box 8, UCLA
“ready for an alternative” Announcement, July 30, 1979, EGB, Carton 228, Folder 23
“a certain skeptical approach” “Loser Tells All,” Village Voice, July 2–8, 1980
“not keep pace with inflation” State of the State address, Jan. 8, 1981
At cabinet meetings Cabinet meeting notes, Apr. 24, 1981, JB, Box C-2-7
“a very uncommon person” Sacramento Bee, Sep. 20, 1979
a tiny pest Medfly chronology from documents in JB, Boxes C-2-7, A-21-10
“a beautiful creature” Jerry to Nelson, Sep. 24, 1981, JB, Box F-8-2
“Women would ruin it” Wall Street Journal, Jun. 1, 1981
only 26 percent Field Poll, Aug. 20, 1981
“the spirit that built this state” State of the State address, Jan. 7, 1982
“California during the last seven years” Press release, Mar. 10, 1982, Brower papers, Carton 45, Folder 4
“I mistakenly thought” SFC, Sep. 15, 1982
“behind in the polls” Pat to Champion, Jul. 19, 1982, EGB, Carton 25, Folder 17
“do not like your son” Palevsky to Pat, Apr. 27, 1982, EGB, Carton 2, Folder 6
“a respite from me” UPI, Nov. 6, 1982
“Hang in there always” Hutton to Jerry, Nov. 19, 1982, JB, Box F-2-1
“He made us something” “Exodus of the Eclectic,” California Journal, January 1982
“It is immodest” Pat to Denis Peckinpah, Aug. 16, 1971, EGB, Carton 12, Folder 4
“Jerry called me up” Pat Brown oral history interview, Apr. 24, 1979
“As we discussed” Robie to Huey Johnson, Jun. 1, 1981, Robie Papers, Box 14, WRCA
Pat rented a bus Video of aqueduct dedication, Dec. 11, 1982, video courtesy of Ron Robie
17: Winter Soldiers
Sources: Kathleen Cairns, The Case of Rose Bird (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2016); Author interviews with Anne Gust Brown, Evans, Ganz, Gardels, Geesman, Kathleen Kelly, Meyerson
“the shining city” “Mario Cuomo’s 1984 Convention Speech,” Jul. 16, 1984, posted bv 3rdeyestrategies, www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOdIqKsv624