California's golden years : when government worked and why / William T. Bagley.

Author
Bagley, William T. [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Berkeley : Berkeley Public Policy Press, 2009.
Description
p. cm.

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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.
    ISBN
    • 9780877724346
    • 0877724342
    LCCN
    ^^2009025356
    OCLC
    406946173
    RCP
    H - S
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