Perspectives on department administration
Subtitle: and related material
By: tape recorded interview conducted 1978-1979 by Gabrielle Morris for the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, California, 1980 :
Contributors: Morris, Gabrielle S.; Peirce, John Morgan, 1902-; Levit, Bert W. 1903-; Tieburg, Albert B.; Wedemeyer, John.; Lowry, James.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.; Goodwin Knight-Edmond G. Brown, Sr. Era Oral History Project.
Published: 1978
Subjects: Brown, Edmund G. 1905-1996.; California. Dept. of Finance.; California. State Dept. of Employment.; California. Dept. of Social Welfare.; California. Dept. of Mental Hygiene.; Agicultural laborers, Mexican -- California.; Minorities -- Employment -- California.; Social service -- California.; Mental health -- California.; California -- Politics and government.
Other titles: Government history documentation oral history series.
Description: Interviews with five department directors in the Knight-Brown administrations. Copies of photographs and of documentary material inserted. Interviewees and titles of interviews, as follows: John M. Peirce. California State Department of Finance, 1953-1958. Also discusses the 1958 gubernatorial campaign. Bert W. Livit. State Finance and Innovations in Government Organization, 1944-1959. Albert B. Tieburg. California State Department of Employment, 1945-1966. Includes discussion of farm placement service and bracero program and minority hiring. John Wedemeyer. California State Department of Social Welfare, 1959-1966. James Lowry. California State Department of Mental Hygiene, 1960s. Includes comments also on mental health program in Reagan administration. With this, 1 portfolio: photocopies of additional documentary material.
Table of contents: value: Reel 1: John M. Peirce, Aug. 17, 1978. Track 1: 971 ft., track 2: 982 ft.; value: Reel 2: Peirce, cont. Track 1: 972 ft., track 2: 345 ft.; value: Reel 3: Bert W. Levit, Oct. 26, 1978. Track 1: 971 ft., track 2: 977 ft.; value: Reel 4: Levit, cont. Track 1: 408 ft., track 2: blank; value: Reel 5: Albert B. Tieburg, June 11, 1979. Track 1: 496 ft., track 2: 496 ft.; value: Reel 6: Tieburg, cont. Track 1: 495 ft., track 2: 496 ft.; value: Reel 7: Tieburg, cont. Track 1: 157 ft., track 2: blank; value: Reel 8: John Wedemeyer, Dec. 15, 1978. Track 1: 970 ft., track 2: 982 ft.; value: Reel 9: Wedemeyer, cont. Track 1: 394 ft., track 2: blank; value: Reel 10: Wedemeyer, Oct. 11, 1979. Track 1: 494 ft., track 2: 492 ft.; value: Reel 11: Wedemeyer, cont. Track 1: 496 ft., track 2: 495 ft.; value: Reel 12: Wedemeyer, cont. Track 1: 214 ft., track 2: 497 ft. (track 2 is background interview with Jack Watson, secretary to Senator Albert Rodda, not transcribed); value: Reel 13: James Lowry, Dec. 15, 1978. Track 1: 969 ft., track 2: 767 ft.; value: Phonotapes: