Political advocacy and loyalty
Subtitle: and related material
By: tape recorded interviews conducted 1977-1979 by Amelia R. Fry, Gabrielle Morris, James Rowland and Julie Shearer for the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1982 :
Contributors: Fry, Amelia R.; Coffey, Bertram, 1916-; Blease, Coleman, 1929-; Yorty, Samuel William, 1909-1998.; Engle, Lucretia.; Salinger, Pierre.; Morris, Gabrielle S.; Rowland, James H.; Shearer, Julie Gordon.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.; Goodwin Knight-Edmond G. Brown, Sr. Era Oral History Project.
Published: 1977
Subjects: Miller, George, 1914-1969; Brown, Edmund G. 1905-1996; Brown, Jerry, 1938-; Engle, Clair, 1911-1964; Democratic Party (Calif.); California. Legislature; Lobbying -- California; California -- Politics and government; United States -- Politics and government
Other titles: Government history documentation oral history series.
Description: Interviews focusing on the Goodwin Knight and Pat Brown gubernatorial administrations. Interviewees, and titles of interviews, as follow: Bertram Coffey. Reflections on George Miller, Jr., Governors Pat and Jerry Brown, and the Democratic Party; Coleman A. Blease, A Lobbyist Views the Knight-Brown Era. Primarily experiences as lobbyist for the Friends' Committee on Legislation and the ACLU, and comments on many legislators; Samuel Yorty. Samuel Yorty: A Challenge to the Democrats. Primarily re political offices held; Lucretia Engle. Clair Engle as Campaigner and Statesman; Pierre Salinger. A Journalist as Democratic Campaigner and U.S. Senator. Comments on 1964 campaign for U.S. senator, Robert Kennedy's presidential primary campaign and the 1968 presidential campaign. Includes supporting documents for Engle interview.
Table of contents: title: Reels 1-2: Bertram Coffey, July 31, 1978; title: Reels 3-6: Coleman Blease, Sep, 6 and 11, 1979; title: Reels 7-8: Samuel Yorty, May 16, 1979; title: Reels 9-10: Lucretia Engle, Oct. 6, 1977; title: Reels 11-13: Pierre Salinger, May 14-15, 1979.; title: Phonotapes: