Oral history interview with Nicholas C. Petris, California State Senator, 1967- , California State Assemblyman, 1959-1966
By: by Gabrielle Morris, Regional Oral History Office, University of California, Berkeley.
Contributors: Morris, Gabrielle S.; State Government Oral History Program (Calif.); Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 1992
Subjects: Politicians -- California -- Interviews.; Legislators -- California -- Interviews.; California -- Politics and government -- 1951-
Genres: Interviews.
Description: Petris discusses his childhood in Oakland; Army service during World War II; Stanford Law School; Helen Gahagan Douglas 1950 Senate campaign; Oakland politics; Alameda County assembly delegation; Lanterman-Petris-Short Mental Health Act; Berkeley politics; California politics.