The Governor's Office under Goodwin Knight
Subtitle: and related material
By: tape recorded interviews conducted 1979 by Sarah Sharp and James H. Rowland for the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1980 :
Contributors: Sharp, Sarah L. 1949-; Barrett, Douglas.; Bright, Tom M. 1907-; Groves, Sadie Perlin.; Lemmon, Maryalice.; Mason, Paul.; Rowland, James H.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.; Goodwin Knight-Edmond G. Brown, Sr. Era Oral History Project.
Published: 1979
Subjects: Knight, Goodwin, 1896-1970.; Warren, Earl, 1891-1974.; Brown, Edmund G. 1905-1996.; Republican Party (Calif.); California Youth Authority.; California. Governor.; Water resources development -- California.; Alcohol -- Law and legislation -- California.; California -- Politics and government.
Other titles: Government history documentation oral history series.
Description: Interviews with five staff members. Interviewees (copies of photographs and of documentary material inserted), and titles of interviews, as follows: Douglas Barrett. Goodwin Knight's Governor's Office, 1953-1958, and the Youth Authority, 1958-1965. Press secretary and personal friend. Tom M. Bright. The Governor's Office of Goodwin J. Knight, 1953-1958. Departmental secretary and press secretary. Sadie Perlin Groves. A Career as Private Secretary to Goodwin Knight, 1952-1958. Maryalice Lemmon. Working in the Governor's Office, 1950-1959. Working in secretarial capacities for Governors Earl Warren and Pat Brown also. Paul Mason. Covering the Legislature for Governor Goodwin J. Knight. Executive and legislative secretary. Comments also on California water plan and liquor lobby. All interviewees comment on inner workings of the governor's office, the transition from the Warren administration, contrasts with Warren, Knight as governor and politician, and the campaigns in which he was involved, including the 1958 gubernatorial campaign.
Table of contents: value: Reel 1: Douglass Barrett, Mar. 3, 1979. Track 1: 492 ft., track 2: 493 ft.; value: Reel 2: Barrett, cont. Track 1: 489 ft., track 2: 490 ft.; value: Reel 3: Barrett, cont. Track 1: 155 ft., track 2: blank; value: Reel 4: Barrett, Apr. 27, 1979. Track 1: 498 ft., track 2: 497 ft.; value: Reel 5: Barrett, cont. Track 1: 494 ft., track 2: 174 ft.; value: Reel 6: Tom Bright, May 31, 1979. Track 1: 499 ft., track 2: 498 ft.; value: Reel 7: Bright, cont. Track 1: 498 ft., track 2: 23 ft.; value: Reel 8: Paul Mason, Feb. 22, 1979. Track 1: 496 ft., track 2: 497 ft.; value: Reel 9: Mason, cont. Track 1: 494 ft., track 2: damaged; value: Reel 10: Mason, Mar. 16, 1979. Track 1: 499 ft., track 2: 497 ft.; value: Reel 11: Mason, cont. Track 1: 497 ft., track 2: 496 ft.; value: Reel 12: Mason, cont. Track 1: 493 ft., track 2: 490 ft.; value: Reel 13: Mason, cont. Track 1: 365 ft., track 2: blank.; value: Phonotapes: