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Subject(s)

• California—Politics and government—1951- [Browse]

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Contents

• Part I. Just some characters. Willie Brown
• Sam Yorty
• Richard Nixon
• Pat Nixon
• Jesse Unruh, Jack Veneman, Leon Penetta, and Snow in Modesto
• George Deukmejian: a gem
• The birth of the Young Turks
• The Legislature grows up: even sends a delegation to Martin Luther King, Jr.'s funeral
• Pat Brown: great governor
• Part II. What happened. Legislative golden years
• How we built California as we know it today
• Problems of the golden years
• The results of reform
• Part III. "Capitol Morning Report" items. Phil Burton saves Ronald Reagan
• University funding
• Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ronald Reagan
• Ronald Reagan's real record
• Initiatives
• Fundraisers: dollars instead of dinners
• Every night is Saturday night
• Ideologues and then moderates
• Redistricting
• What happened to moderation and compromise?
• Infrastructure: no longer golden
• Gerald Ford remembered upon his demise
• Earl Warren and Arnold Schwarzenegger --^
• Part IV. The way things got done. Train trips
• People who play together stay together
• Still on the subject of card games: we got smart
• About John Harmer and Howard Thelen
• The Ten Commandments: are they divisible?
• The Rumford Fair Housing Act
• Reflections on Jesse Unruh and "The Lockup"
• A little background to the rise of Ronald Resgan and the right wing
• How Ronald Reagan became governor of California
• How Pat Brown smeared George Christopher and how this came back to haunt him and change history forever
• The first few sour days of Reagan's governorship
• On some of Ronald Reagan's inner circle
• Republican Speaker Bob Monagan confronts Republican Governor Ronald Reagan: plus, passage of CEQA
• Reagan's tax revision and the 1970s surplus
• How income tax witholding built the Governor's Mansion
• The $2 billion Reagan tax package: how the bill is packaged and Jarvis ruins home rule
• Tax reform as a continual process --^
• Welfare reform negotiations, 1971, and how Ronald Reagan participated in felonies
• One whacky but relevant election of 1966
• Why run for State Controller?
• The 1974 election and how it led to Gray Davis becoming governor
• How Ronald Reagan consolidated turmoil and becalmed the body politic
• Campaign contributions prior to the passage of Proposition 9: 1974
• More on how cash cows spilled their milk prior to PAC days in Sacramento
• School desegregation guidelines: another attempt to show thet some GOP members believed in social progress
• Republican fortunes in the Assembly in the tidal wave of Jesse Unruh's Democratic stronghold
• One of the downsides to a professionalized Legislature
• Underscoring again how Proposition Nine has created precisely what it was designed to eradicate: the proliferation of campaign contributions and expenditures
• Whither goes the GOP? To withering away? --^
• Part V. There is life after the Legislature. A tiny slice of life as Chairman of the Commodity Futures Trading Committion
• Throwing red tape into the Potomac: literally
• How Jimmy Carter tried to shoo me out of the CFTC
• How I got appointed to the CFTC in the first place
• The Commodity Futures Trading Commission
• The birth of the CFTC
• Postscript: a unigue honor
• Afterword: the Hon. John T. Knox
• Biography.

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ISBN

• 9780877724346
• 0877724342

LCCN

^^2009025356

OCLC

406946173

RCP

H - S

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