California State of Mind

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In the turbulent 1960s, an ordinary man rose to face extraordinary challenges and powerfully shaped the future of California. A dynamic American dream story unfolds in this Emmy® Nominated documentary on Governor Edmund G. "Pat" Brown — "the Godfather of Modern California." Told through the eyes of Brown's granddaughter, award-winning filmmaker Sascha Rice, CALIFORNIA STATE OF MIND gives students an inside look at a California icon and a political family, called by some “the West Coast Kennedys.” As the filmmaker investigates her grandfather's legacy, viewers are invited along to assess Brown's policies and learn about government, leadership, civil rights, growth, and the clash between environment and economic development. Brown's career intersects with such luminaries as JFK, Nixon, Reagan, Cesar Chavez, and Martin Luther King Jr.. This exciting tale of the West is much more than an examination of the past; it's an entertaining biography and a provocative portrait of a man whose bi-partisan can-do optimism inspires students today.

Educational Media Reviews Online: "Highly Recommended"
"Rice has gathered much archival footage and commentary from others including Willie Brown, Nancy Pelosi, Dianne Feinstein, and Tom Brokaw who believes Brown will be long-remembered as “the godfather of modern California.” Brown’s story should serve as an inspiration for anyone weary of the never-ending political scrums that have come to be identified with state and national politics. There is no other DVD available on the career of Pat Brown and this is a worthy addition. It’s a highly recommended purchase for every library in California and any university with government and/or American history departments."

Los Angeles Times | George Skelton
"To get anything done in government —then or today — requires a leader. Pat Brown filled the bill. For a political junkie, it's four stars."

Maxine Isaacs, Lecturer on Government at Harvard University
"An invaluable teaching tool. Brings to life the challenges and trade-offs of governance; the clash between ambitious government leaders and eventual limits on resources; and the need for congruence between a visionary leader and the time in which he or she serves."

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Main credits

Rice, Sascha (film director)
Rice, Sascha (screenwriter)
Rice, Sascha (film producer)
Nix, Laura (screenwriter)
Armstrong, Hilary (film producer)
Mintz, Julia (film producer)

Other credits

Director of photography, Anne Etheridge; edited by Lauren Giordano, Doug Blush, Claire L. Chandler; original score composed by Kim Carroll.

MARC Record See Worldcat record

Keywords

Government, Politics, Civil Rights, American History, Environment, Civic Participation, Pat Brown; "California State of Mind"; GOOD DOCS

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You are hearing

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the actual signals

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transmitted by

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the earth circling satellite,

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one of the great

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scientific feats of the age.

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♪ Beer ♪

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♪ Mable, Black Label,

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Carling\'s Black Label beer ♪♪

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At the U.S. fair in Moscow

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the Nixon/Khrushchev debate

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in a model American kitchen

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attracts...

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Dodgers have roared back,

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maybe it\'s that refreshing

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Pacific air they...

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Has your picture appeared

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in a New York newspaper

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within the last two weeks?

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Yes, it has.

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Do you think that

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all four of us

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would recognize you on sight?

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No, I don\'t.

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Do you deal in services?

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Yes, I do.

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Would a lady also

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avail herself

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of your services?

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Yes, they could.

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Would children?

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Yes, they would, too.

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Do you make peanut

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butter sandwiches?

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Yes, I do.

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Two down and eight to go,

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Ms. Francis.

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Do you have anything

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to do with government?

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Yes, I do.

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Would that be the governor

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of a state?

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Yes, it would.

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Is it, is it Governor-to-be

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Pat Brown?

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♪

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A hundred years from now

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people will look back

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at the formation

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of the modern state

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of California

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and in bold print

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at the front of

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any of those chapters

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will be Edmund G. Pat Brown.

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Pat Brown was the godfather

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of modern California.

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♪

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But to me,

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he was Grandpa.

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♪

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He wore black socks

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to the beach.

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He took me body surfing

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in the ocean,

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and like all

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his grandchildren

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I thought I was

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the favorite.

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As a little girl,

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I ran around his living room

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while he smoked cigars,

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and listened

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while he talked shop

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with the grownups.

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Being with him was always

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an adventure.

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He would strike up

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conversations anywhere.

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At a gas station,

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in an elevator,

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even at a stoplight.

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He wanted to know

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everyone\'s life story,

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to poll them on issues,

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and of course,

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to plug his ideas.

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I think the state

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of California

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is the greatest place

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on all God\'s earth.

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We\'re making it better

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in every way.

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Growing up,

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Grandpa loved

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to debate with me.

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He expected all of us

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to be engaged.

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And there are still so many

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questions I wish I had asked

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before he passed away.

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♪

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My mom and I often discuss

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what Grandpa would think

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about the state of California.

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Raising two kids,

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I take these conversations

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even more seriously.

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In order to imagine

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how we can make

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a difference today,

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I\'ve decided to look back

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at my grandfather\'s

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vision and legacy.

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♪

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We don\'t study

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history enough.

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So, I don\'t believe

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that people know

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Pat Brown\'s story.

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One thing about

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his legacy is that

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he was willing to take risk

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and he was willing

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to take risk

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for the right reasons.

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Pat Brown, when he

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talked about thinking big,

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that is the very thing

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that is lacking

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a lot of times

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in Sacramento.

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You gotta be able to

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communicate that vision,

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and Pat Brown did that.

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He communicated that vision,

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and he brought people in.

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That\'s what leadership

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is all about.

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He built the water system

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that made Southern

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California possible.

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He built the state

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university system.

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He was a man who was

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interested in solutions

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and in doing what was

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best for the state.

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He was a true Californian.

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I think that government

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should try to do things

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for, for people,

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not to the point of doing

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everything for them,

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but I don\'t believe

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in seeing people suffer

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while government sits by

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and lets the individual

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take care of himself.

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Seeing the world

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through the lens

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of Pat Brown

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is very valuable,

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and we might learn

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something that might

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give us some ideas

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of how do we deal

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with the kind of world

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that we now confront.

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We can\'t plan

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for next year,

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or five years,

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or ten years,

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we have to plan

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to the year 2000,

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which is,

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which will be upon us

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very, very quickly.

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Pat Brown knew that

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the state of California

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was going to be much

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more important

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in the scheme of things

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than any of us

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ever envisioned

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or could envision.

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We\'re witnessing

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the greatest mass

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migration in the history

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of the world,

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and it\'s going

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to continue.

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Seventeen hundred people

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every day.

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They come to California

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seeking a new

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and better life.

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Pat Brown\'s California

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was a place where

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everything seemed possible.

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♪ California here I come ♪

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♪ Right back where

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I started from ♪

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♪ Where bowers of flowers

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bloom in the spring ♪

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♪ Each morning at dawning

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birdies sing at everything ♪

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♪ A sun kissed mist said

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don\'t be late ♪

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♪ That\'s why I can

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hardly wait ♪♪

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California is literally

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going broke.

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California\'s unemployment

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rate it\'s over 12%.

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Over two million Californians

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are out of work.

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California faces its

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third consecutive

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year of drought.

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We need water,

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we need water!

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It is the eighth largest

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economy in the world.

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If California goes

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this is going to have

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a negative effect

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on the rest of

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the United States.

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The crisis we face today

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might make my grandfather\'s

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era seem idyllic,

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but it wasn\'t that simple.

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Pat Brown\'s time as governor

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was a kind of a road map

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that lead to the issues

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that we\'re still

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dealing with now.

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Governor Brown was hammered

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by a series of events,

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and by a change

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in American culture.

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I call upon

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Chairman Khrushchev

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to eliminate this reckless

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and provocative threat

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to world peace.

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More power to individuals

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and not more power

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to government

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in Washington D.C.

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And you\'ve got to indicate

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to the people that run it,

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to the people that own it,

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that unless you\'re free,

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the machine will be prevented

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from working at all.

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Hands up high.

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Get \'em up there.

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First one drops their hands

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is a dead man.

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♪

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Government has become

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the master,

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but government is

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supposed to be the servant.

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This is no time

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for politics as usual.

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Let us recognize

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the awesome magnitude

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of the task

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we take up here.

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We must dare to dream,

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to do, and to build!

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♪

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Three days before

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my grandfather\'s

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first birthday,

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the great earthquake of 1906,

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hit San Francisco.

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His mother bundled him up

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and fled to the countryside.

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His father chose

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to stay behind

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and watch the city burn.

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He grew up as a boy

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in a time of optimism,

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of rebuilding San Francisco.

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♪

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Grandpa and I didn\'t

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talk a lot about

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his childhood,

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but after some searching,

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I uncovered

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an amazing collection

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of old recordings.

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♪

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It was kind of

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a tough neighborhood.

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You had to be able

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to handle your dukes

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in those days.

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So my father,

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he was kind of a boxer,

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and he kind of taught me

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to box, so I became

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a pretty good fighter.

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My mother, she was

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self-educated and she would

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read history to us.

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My father was

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never home at night

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and so we became very close.

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Our family likes to say

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that Grandpa\'s dad

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was an \"entrepreneur\",

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and he did run through

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a lot of businesses.

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He owned one of

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the first movie theaters

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in San Francisco,

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he ran a stationery shop,

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then a penny arcade

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with a photo studio,

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and he even had Grandpa

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help him sell sodas

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at the boxing matches.

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My father was gonna

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have the boys

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have the get up and go

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to be do-ers, you know,

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and make money.

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He sold some kind of,

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I don\'t know if

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it was medicine,

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some kind of an elixir.

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It\'s called Fire of Life,

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and it was a liniment.

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I thought it was kind of

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like snake medicine,

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but my mother said it was

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wonderful for aches and pains

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on the, uh, arms and legs

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and everything else.

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He started many

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different enterprises,

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but I think the most enduring

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was the, um, tobacco shop,

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photo studio and, uh,

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reports are that there was

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a, a gambling parlor

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in the back.

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♪

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I was making

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$150 a month,

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and running a dice game

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and making another

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$150 or $200 a month.

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I was really in the chips.

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I had the money.

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I paid board and lodging

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at home to my folks.

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All I\'d make

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I\'d lend back to my father

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because he was always broke,

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and he probably knew

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I was running this illegal

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dice game out in front.

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I was violating the law.

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I had enough recommendations

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to go to college,

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but my father\'s having

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financial difficulties.

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But I didn\'t wanna tell him

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I didn\'t have enough money.

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I wanted to let him think

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I was stupid.

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♪

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He often talked

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about how he had never

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gone to college,

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but I didn\'t realize

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it was because

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he couldn\'t afford it.

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He gave up his dice game,

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got a job working

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for a blind lawyer,

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and worked his way through

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night law school.

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He\'d gone straight from

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high school to law school.

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Something you

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couldn\'t do today,

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but you could then.

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Not having taken English

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or history in college

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I\'ve always suffered from

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somewhat of an inferiority

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complex with college people.

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But I just had that

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political bug

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from the very,

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very beginning.

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The first office

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that he ran for

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was State Assembly.

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We had some signs

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and we had some cards

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\"23 years in the District.\"

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That was our slogan,

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that was my age,

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23 years in the district!

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His opponent\'s slogan was

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\"Don\'t send a boy

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on a man\'s job.\"

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My grandfather lost

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by a very big margin.

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Most people would

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have been crushed,

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but Grandpa didn\'t

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let this bother him.

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I didn\'t really

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expect to win,

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but as a funny thing

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I found out at that time

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no matter how poor

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your chances are,

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if you\'re an optimist,

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you always think

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you have a chance to win.

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I was a conservative Republican

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but I didn\'t really have

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any political philosophy

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at the time.

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He thought that

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your political party

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was like a religion

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that you didn\'t change it,

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but he was so inspired

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by Roosevelt

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and what he was doing

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during the New Deal

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to revitalize our economy,

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that he converted

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to the Democratic Party.

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Fueled by ambition,

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he ran for District Attorney

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of San Francisco in 1939.

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He lost that race, too.

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Unfazed, he ran for

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the same office again in 1943.

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One of the newspapers

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had a big story

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saying that Pat Brown

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was implicated

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with illegal gambling.

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He took his father

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out for a walk

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and told him he was

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going to be running for

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top law enforcement officer

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in San Francisco.

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Told him, \"Dad,

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you\'re going to have to

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close down permanently

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that card parlor

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and gambling parlor,

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it just won\'t be acceptable.\"

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And his father said,

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\"That\'d be fine,

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I\'d be happy to do that.\"

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And my father thought,

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\"Done.\"

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Well, turns out

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he closed it down

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for a few days

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then reopened it after that.

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His father would say,

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\"Look, you take care

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of your business,

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and I\'ll take care

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of my business.

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Despite the bad press

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and complicated dealings

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with his father,

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he finally won

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his first election.

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My theory in politics

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in those days

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was try to maintain

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a good image

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and be a good human being.

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He served two terms

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as the District Attorney

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of San Francisco.

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Then he became

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the Attorney General

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for eight years,

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but he had bigger

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plans for himself,

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and the state.

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And in 1958,

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he mounted his

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first campaign for governor.

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I believe the challenge

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requires leadership

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which looks forward.

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Leadership which is

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personal and understanding.

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I think I\'m going to win

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because I\'ve talked sense

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to the people of

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the state of California,

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and the opposition

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has talked nonsense.

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Pat Brown won

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by a landslide.

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And with all the power

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of a million vote victory,

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the new governor

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decided to tackle an issue

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that was close to his heart.

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♪

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The higher educational

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system was in chaos.

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There was very clearly

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a substantial increase

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in population.

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There was no planning

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being done.

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It was just a situation

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which was out of control.

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And Pat just

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grabbed a hold of it,

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and said, \"We\'ve got to

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do something about this.\"

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So far as the governor

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can stop it,

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there will never be

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a tuition at

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the University of California,

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or the state colleges,

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or the junior colleges

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of our land.

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Believe me!

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He knew that it was

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obligatory for California

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to lay down the foundations

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for the mega state

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that it was becoming.

00:14:49.366 --> 00:14:50.366
Pat Brown set out

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to level the playing field

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in education for Californians,

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supporting an idea

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which became known

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as the Master Plan

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for Higher Education.

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We have the statistics

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to prove that in other states

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where they have high tuition,

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some of the best students

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just don\'t go on to college,

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but the young man

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or the young woman

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that finishes state college

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or a university

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over a period of ten years

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doubles the income

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of the person that

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drops out in high school.

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Pat came into office

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and pushed for a solution.

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He told the people

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who ran the universities,

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\"Either you guys solve this

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or the legislature

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and I will solve it,

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and we may solve it

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in a way that

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you won\'t like.\"

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He and Clark Kerr,

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who was then

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the President

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of the University,

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had a bit of

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a touchy relationship

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at first,

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and Pat acknowledged

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that in part it was

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because he was

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a little nervous

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around people who were

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very well educated,

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as Clark was.

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The governor

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entrusted Clark Kerr

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to be the architect

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of the Master Plan.

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Governor Brown,

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in effect,

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sort of quarterbacked

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all these moves

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through the assembly,

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through the senate,

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through the academic world.

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Pat\'s most important role

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was in coming up

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with the money

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to build new campuses.

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Three new university campuses,

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eight new state

00:16:05.267 --> 00:16:06.332
college campuses,

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countless new

00:16:06.966 --> 00:16:07.966
community colleges,

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and they kept the tuition

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low enough so that

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working-class kids,

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like Pat had once been,

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could go to

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public universities

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that were the best

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public education system

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in the world.

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As our competitiveness

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as a nation,

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much of it all depends

00:16:22.100 --> 00:16:22.966
on the education

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of our people,

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and that was a very high

00:16:25.533 --> 00:16:28.332
priority for him.

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They said the way out

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is through education.

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It benefited me greatly,

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the Master Plan.

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U.C.L.A. was forty dollars

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a semester.

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Today campuses

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are erupting with

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protests because students

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can not afford college.

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They\'re even holding funerals

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for the Master Plan.

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We\'ve cut tens of millions

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from higher education.

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What we\'re experiencing

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now has been

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a devastating blow

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to education.

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For some reason today

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people feel as though

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they want the best,

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but they don\'t really

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want to pay for it.

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I think he\'d be dismayed.

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Dismayed beyond belief.

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He felt so strongly

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about the importance

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of an affordable education,

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to make it accessible to all

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and of the highest quality.

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I\'m very proud

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of the things we\'re doing

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in higher education,

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and we\'re ahead

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of the rest of the nation

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25 years.

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My grandfather often

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expressed regret

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that he never went to college,

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but he delighted

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in making that opportunity

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possible for all Californians.

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♪

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But the governor recognized

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that many in the state

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still lacked

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even more basic rights.

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We must not rest

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until we provide jobs

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without discrimination

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for all who want to work,

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and until we can be certain

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that all of our people

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are truly equal

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before the law.

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In Los Angeles,

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there was strict segregation.

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Asians couldn\'t

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buy property.

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African Americans couldn\'t,

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and of course,

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Latinos couldn\'t.

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They would just outright

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discriminate against people.

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I have vivid memories

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in the neighborhood

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that I lived in,

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that black people

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could only go so far.

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Assemblyman Byron Rumford,

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a pharmacist from Oakland,

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introduced a fair housing bill

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in the legislature

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The bill said you cannot

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discriminate in the sale

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or rental of housing

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based on race,

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creed, or religion.

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And on the face of it

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seems obvious,

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but when it came down

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to these transitional

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neighborhoods

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where African Americans

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were moving into

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previously white,

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working-class neighborhoods,

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there was a great deal

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of tension.

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And I think the one

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thing about Pat

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that isn\'t always

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true of governors

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is he put himself

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in the place of the people

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that were being governed.

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Still riding the momentum

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of his big win,

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Pat Brown put

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all his weight

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behind the bill.

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I hadn\'t known

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my grandfather was one

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of the first governors

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to try outlawing

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discrimination.

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In 1963,

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the Civil Rights Movement

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had erupted nationwide.

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We cannot be satisfied

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as long as the Negro\'s

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basic mobility

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is from a smaller ghetto

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to a larger one.

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And in California,

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a coalition formed

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to fight for the passage

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of the Rumford Bill.

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The people in this state

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who had for a long time

00:19:46.700 --> 00:19:48.899
benefited from racial

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discrimination did not

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want to give up

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those benefits.

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Briefly stated,

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the choice is between

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progress and reaction.

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But the majority

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of legislators were

00:20:02.500 --> 00:20:05.699
determined to block it.

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The battle raged for months.

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The bill was on

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the verge of defeat.

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Protesters on both sides

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jammed the capitol\'s steps.

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♪

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He risked

00:20:20.666 --> 00:20:22.965
everything to defend

00:20:22.966 --> 00:20:24.099
the Fair Housing Act.

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Knowing that this could

00:20:26.000 --> 00:20:28.599
cost him his career.

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Finally, and just barely,

00:20:30.566 --> 00:20:32.032
the bill passed.

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It was a slim margin

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but it was a victory.

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Grandpa was ecstatic.

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Pat Brown had something

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and that was the business

00:20:43.533 --> 00:20:44.899
of making a decision

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that didn\'t have

00:20:46.066 --> 00:20:47.999
the focus group backing it.

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That didn\'t have

00:20:48.834 --> 00:20:50.532
the polling already there,

00:20:50.533 --> 00:20:51.066
but the business

00:20:51.067 --> 00:20:52.565
of making a decision

00:20:52.566 --> 00:20:53.266
because it was

00:20:53.267 --> 00:20:54.599
the absolute

00:20:54.600 --> 00:20:58.232
right thing to do.

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It was a significant

00:20:59.234 --> 00:21:00.599
step towards eliminating

00:21:00.600 --> 00:21:02.265
discrimination,

00:21:02.266 --> 00:21:03.365
and while the struggle

00:21:03.366 --> 00:21:04.965
was far from over,

00:21:04.966 --> 00:21:06.199
Pat Brown turned

00:21:06.200 --> 00:21:07.100
his attention

00:21:07.100 --> 00:21:07.966
to the issue

00:21:07.966 --> 00:21:08.566
that would most

00:21:08.567 --> 00:21:11.899
powerfully shape California.

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♪

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The story of the West

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is the story of water,

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who has it,

00:21:35.333 --> 00:21:36.233
who needs it,

00:21:36.233 --> 00:21:36.966
how it gets

00:21:36.967 --> 00:21:38.265
from here to there.

00:21:38.266 --> 00:21:40.565
Pat Brown understood that.

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♪

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Living in

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Southern California

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I know water

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is scarce and precious.

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My grandfather was

00:21:48.900 --> 00:21:49.600
the first person

00:21:49.601 --> 00:21:51.232
to teach me that,

00:21:51.233 --> 00:21:52.100
and he made water

00:21:52.101 --> 00:21:53.432
the center of his vision

00:21:53.433 --> 00:21:56.399
for the future.

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Californians had been

00:21:57.500 --> 00:21:58.932
fighting over water

00:21:58.933 --> 00:22:01.865
long before my grandfather.

00:22:01.866 --> 00:22:02.566
William Mulholland\'s

00:22:02.567 --> 00:22:04.365
Los Angeles Aqueduct

00:22:04.366 --> 00:22:05.432
was even dynamited

00:22:05.433 --> 00:22:06.599
by angry residents

00:22:06.600 --> 00:22:07.699
in a futile attempt

00:22:07.700 --> 00:22:10.232
to keep their water.

00:22:10.233 --> 00:22:11.965
When Pat Brown took office,

00:22:11.966 --> 00:22:12.966
Southern California

00:22:12.967 --> 00:22:13.999
was booming

00:22:14.000 --> 00:22:15.399
and it needed water

00:22:15.400 --> 00:22:17.399
more than ever.

00:22:17.400 --> 00:22:18.665
Every single year

00:22:18.666 --> 00:22:20.165
we create a new city

00:22:20.166 --> 00:22:21.232
almost the size

00:22:21.233 --> 00:22:25.032
of San Francisco.

00:22:25.033 --> 00:22:25.966
I think it\'s always

00:22:25.966 --> 00:22:26.500
difficult with

00:22:26.501 --> 00:22:28.965
infrastructure because,

00:22:28.966 --> 00:22:29.333
you know,

00:22:29.333 --> 00:22:29.966
there\'s so many

00:22:29.966 --> 00:22:30.366
people out there.

00:22:30.366 --> 00:22:31.066
They say,

00:22:31.066 --> 00:22:31.666
\"What are they

00:22:31.667 --> 00:22:32.965
talking about?

00:22:32.966 --> 00:22:35.832
Infra-what?\"

00:22:35.833 --> 00:22:36.700
I believe the governor

00:22:36.701 --> 00:22:38.165
must take direct

00:22:38.166 --> 00:22:40.265
personal responsibility

00:22:40.266 --> 00:22:41.100
to help solve

00:22:41.101 --> 00:22:42.599
California\'s basic

00:22:42.600 --> 00:22:44.199
water problems.

00:22:44.200 --> 00:22:44.966
The governor knew

00:22:44.966 --> 00:22:45.933
that the political

00:22:45.934 --> 00:22:47.832
capital of his first term

00:22:47.833 --> 00:22:49.965
wouldn\'t last forever.

00:22:49.966 --> 00:22:50.700
Putting everything

00:22:50.700 --> 00:22:51.666
on the line,

00:22:51.666 --> 00:22:52.166
he proposed

00:22:52.167 --> 00:22:53.332
the most ambitious

00:22:53.333 --> 00:22:54.765
water bill ever

00:22:54.766 --> 00:22:56.732
to hit Sacramento.

00:22:56.733 --> 00:22:57.166
And so what

00:22:57.167 --> 00:22:58.199
he said was,

00:22:58.200 --> 00:22:58.900
\"We\'re gonna build

00:22:58.900 --> 00:22:59.866
dams in the north

00:22:59.867 --> 00:23:01.032
so there won\'t be

00:23:01.033 --> 00:23:01.966
flooding problems.

00:23:01.966 --> 00:23:02.900
We\'re gonna move water

00:23:02.901 --> 00:23:03.999
to farms in

00:23:04.000 --> 00:23:05.332
the Central Valley.

00:23:05.333 --> 00:23:06.599
We\'re gonna send water

00:23:06.600 --> 00:23:07.166
to cities in

00:23:07.167 --> 00:23:08.932
Southern California.\"

00:23:08.933 --> 00:23:09.700
Somebody once said to me,

00:23:09.700 --> 00:23:10.666
\"The Tehachapi Mountains

00:23:10.667 --> 00:23:11.965
were like the Himalayas.\"

00:23:11.966 --> 00:23:12.700
It was two different

00:23:12.701 --> 00:23:14.099
countries on each side.

00:23:14.100 --> 00:23:14.966
The South

00:23:14.966 --> 00:23:15.966
it now wanted water

00:23:15.967 --> 00:23:17.499
from Northern California.

00:23:17.500 --> 00:23:18.699
Northern California

00:23:18.700 --> 00:23:19.200
viewed that as

00:23:19.201 --> 00:23:20.999
basically theft.

00:23:21.000 --> 00:23:21.900
It\'s really very

00:23:21.901 --> 00:23:23.265
difficult to get people

00:23:23.266 --> 00:23:24.565
of San Francisco to do

00:23:24.566 --> 00:23:26.965
anything for Los Angeles.

00:23:26.966 --> 00:23:27.966
I had to just

00:23:27.967 --> 00:23:29.665
be the, the water master

00:23:29.666 --> 00:23:30.965
of the state.

00:23:30.966 --> 00:23:31.966
Unquestionably, I wanted

00:23:31.967 --> 00:23:33.965
that water bill through.

00:23:33.966 --> 00:23:34.700
And he knew who

00:23:34.700 --> 00:23:35.666
the players were.

00:23:35.666 --> 00:23:36.366
He\'d been around

00:23:36.367 --> 00:23:37.965
for a long, long time

00:23:37.966 --> 00:23:39.232
and he\'d work them over.

00:23:39.233 --> 00:23:40.166
Get them,

00:23:40.167 --> 00:23:41.665
give them something.

00:23:41.666 --> 00:23:44.332
He\'d get his program done.

00:23:44.333 --> 00:23:45.865
I had no compunction

00:23:45.866 --> 00:23:47.232
about even using

00:23:47.233 --> 00:23:49.265
my enemies in order

00:23:49.266 --> 00:23:51.965
to accomplish the result.

00:23:51.966 --> 00:23:54.065
It finally came down

00:23:54.066 --> 00:23:56.432
to that he needed the support

00:23:56.433 --> 00:23:58.099
of the most powerful man

00:23:58.100 --> 00:23:59.865
in the state senate.

00:23:59.866 --> 00:24:00.965
Uh, his name was

00:24:00.966 --> 00:24:03.765
Hugh Burns and he was

00:24:03.766 --> 00:24:08.265
a classic of his time.

00:24:08.266 --> 00:24:10.732
Burns was a mortician

00:24:10.733 --> 00:24:12.965
from Fresno who used to say,

00:24:12.966 --> 00:24:15.065
\"Surprise, surprise,

00:24:15.066 --> 00:24:16.665
I have a casket

00:24:16.666 --> 00:24:19.032
just your size.\"

00:24:19.033 --> 00:24:20.399
In the mornings,

00:24:20.400 --> 00:24:20.966
three or four

00:24:20.967 --> 00:24:22.599
important lobbyists

00:24:22.600 --> 00:24:23.965
would meet in Burns\' office

00:24:23.966 --> 00:24:24.966
and they would sit there,

00:24:24.967 --> 00:24:26.965
and they would drink,

00:24:26.966 --> 00:24:27.966
play cards,

00:24:27.967 --> 00:24:29.232
and talk to him,

00:24:29.233 --> 00:24:29.933
and they made

00:24:29.934 --> 00:24:31.965
the decisions that

00:24:31.966 --> 00:24:32.600
ran the senate.

00:24:32.600 --> 00:24:33.333
That\'s how the senate

00:24:33.334 --> 00:24:34.932
was run in those days.

00:24:34.933 --> 00:24:36.199
Well, he needed Burns\'

00:24:36.200 --> 00:24:37.932
support and he got it.

00:24:37.933 --> 00:24:40.099
And he said, he said,

00:24:40.100 --> 00:24:40.966
\"You\'ll never know

00:24:40.966 --> 00:24:41.966
what I had to give him

00:24:41.967 --> 00:24:44.032
to get this through.\"

00:24:44.033 --> 00:24:45.765
When the final vote

00:24:45.766 --> 00:24:47.499
came down and we won

00:24:47.500 --> 00:24:50.165
by one vote.

00:24:50.166 --> 00:24:54.199
Ooph!

00:24:54.200 --> 00:24:55.332
The bill passed

00:24:55.333 --> 00:24:57.965
but the fight wasn\'t over.

00:24:57.966 --> 00:24:59.232
Now, he had to convince

00:24:59.233 --> 00:25:00.499
the voters to pay

00:25:00.500 --> 00:25:04.932
for the water project.

00:25:04.933 --> 00:25:05.933
And he campaigned

00:25:05.934 --> 00:25:06.965
for the bond as if

00:25:06.966 --> 00:25:07.966
he himself were

00:25:07.967 --> 00:25:11.765
running for office.

00:25:11.766 --> 00:25:12.965
It is time to start

00:25:12.966 --> 00:25:15.599
moving dirt and stop

00:25:15.600 --> 00:25:17.432
throwing mud!

00:25:17.433 --> 00:25:17.966
By plane to

00:25:17.967 --> 00:25:19.165
the San Benito Valley

00:25:19.166 --> 00:25:20.332
to a tamale party

00:25:20.333 --> 00:25:21.365
to mingle with the farmers

00:25:21.366 --> 00:25:22.066
and workers

00:25:22.067 --> 00:25:23.432
of the tomato patches

00:25:23.433 --> 00:25:24.932
and the lettuce fields.

00:25:24.933 --> 00:25:25.366
Have you had

00:25:25.366 --> 00:25:25.900
any problems

00:25:25.900 --> 00:25:26.433
down here at all?

00:25:26.434 --> 00:25:27.665
Oh, we got a few.

00:25:27.666 --> 00:25:28.166
Anything the governor

00:25:28.166 --> 00:25:28.900
could help?

00:25:28.900 --> 00:25:29.900
All right.

00:25:29.900 --> 00:25:30.333
Not now,

00:25:30.334 --> 00:25:32.565
this is the fun part.

00:25:32.566 --> 00:25:33.433
I circled around,

00:25:33.433 --> 00:25:34.266
slapped backs,

00:25:34.267 --> 00:25:37.165
and kissed babies.

00:25:37.166 --> 00:25:37.966
Will the California

00:25:37.967 --> 00:25:39.065
Water Plan be altered

00:25:39.066 --> 00:25:39.866
so as to keep

00:25:39.866 --> 00:25:40.600
more water here

00:25:40.601 --> 00:25:42.399
in Northern California?

00:25:42.400 --> 00:25:43.033
I think we have to

00:25:43.033 --> 00:25:43.866
look at it,

00:25:43.866 --> 00:25:44.666
and we have to decide

00:25:44.666 --> 00:25:45.533
what\'s best for all

00:25:45.534 --> 00:25:47.765
the people of this state.

00:25:47.766 --> 00:25:49.365
I\'m not a water engineer.

00:25:49.366 --> 00:25:50.200
I was essentially

00:25:50.200 --> 00:25:51.200
a politician in,

00:25:51.200 --> 00:25:51.966
what I consider,

00:25:51.967 --> 00:25:54.032
the best sense of the word.

00:25:54.033 --> 00:25:55.699
It\'s the competitive spirit

00:25:55.700 --> 00:25:56.832
that I had.

00:25:56.833 --> 00:25:57.733
I want this to be

00:25:57.734 --> 00:26:00.365
a monument to me.

00:26:00.366 --> 00:26:01.532
The water bond passed

00:26:01.533 --> 00:26:02.965
by less than one percent

00:26:02.966 --> 00:26:04.965
of the statewide vote.

00:26:04.966 --> 00:26:05.333
We all went

00:26:05.333 --> 00:26:06.200
into his office

00:26:06.200 --> 00:26:06.966
and he poured us

00:26:06.967 --> 00:26:08.965
all a drink, said,

00:26:08.966 --> 00:26:11.265
\"This is one state.

00:26:11.266 --> 00:26:13.565
We\'ll all drink to it.\"

00:26:13.566 --> 00:26:19.699
♪

00:26:19.700 --> 00:26:21.832
We said we would build

00:26:21.833 --> 00:26:24.032
the California Water Project

00:26:24.033 --> 00:26:25.832
to generate new billions

00:26:25.833 --> 00:26:27.165
in wealth,

00:26:27.166 --> 00:26:28.399
new opportunities

00:26:28.400 --> 00:26:29.965
for growth in every section

00:26:29.966 --> 00:26:31.032
of this state,

00:26:31.033 --> 00:26:37.365
and today we\'re building it.

00:26:37.366 --> 00:26:38.399
This has brought

00:26:38.400 --> 00:26:40.165
your state to be

00:26:40.166 --> 00:26:40.966
the pioneer

00:26:40.967 --> 00:26:44.965
in the United States.

00:26:44.966 --> 00:26:46.999
Today the dirt is flying.

00:26:47.000 --> 00:26:50.399
A river 700 miles long.

00:26:50.400 --> 00:26:52.532
♪

00:26:52.533 --> 00:26:53.266
The state dammed

00:26:53.266 --> 00:26:53.966
the Feather River

00:26:53.967 --> 00:26:55.065
at Oroville,

00:26:55.066 --> 00:26:55.966
and then built

00:26:55.966 --> 00:26:56.966
a man-made river

00:26:56.967 --> 00:26:58.399
that took the water

00:26:58.400 --> 00:26:59.200
to farms in

00:26:59.201 --> 00:27:00.965
the San Joaquin Valley,

00:27:00.966 --> 00:27:01.700
and then pumped it

00:27:01.701 --> 00:27:03.199
over the Tehachapis

00:27:03.200 --> 00:27:04.532
and down into

00:27:04.533 --> 00:27:05.433
Los Angeles,

00:27:05.433 --> 00:27:05.966
and pumping it over

00:27:05.967 --> 00:27:07.099
the Tehachapis was

00:27:07.100 --> 00:27:08.665
an amazing feat.

00:27:08.666 --> 00:27:09.765
It was like pumping water

00:27:09.766 --> 00:27:10.233
up the side of

00:27:10.234 --> 00:27:12.099
the Empire State Building.

00:27:12.100 --> 00:27:13.365
There was talk initially

00:27:13.366 --> 00:27:13.966
that they might have

00:27:13.967 --> 00:27:15.232
to put a nuclear reactor

00:27:15.233 --> 00:27:16.332
at the base of these pumps

00:27:16.333 --> 00:27:16.966
so that there would be

00:27:16.966 --> 00:27:17.766
enough power to get

00:27:17.767 --> 00:27:20.865
the water up the hill.

00:27:20.866 --> 00:27:21.899
What it\'s basically

00:27:21.900 --> 00:27:24.399
done is allow California

00:27:24.400 --> 00:27:25.166
to continue to be

00:27:25.167 --> 00:27:26.865
the greatest agricultural

00:27:26.866 --> 00:27:29.099
region in the world.

00:27:29.100 --> 00:27:29.933
And if it hadn\'t been

00:27:29.933 --> 00:27:30.733
for Governor Brown

00:27:30.734 --> 00:27:31.899
staking in effect

00:27:31.900 --> 00:27:32.999
his whole reputation,

00:27:33.000 --> 00:27:34.332
staking his governorship

00:27:34.333 --> 00:27:35.565
really upon that,

00:27:35.566 --> 00:27:36.433
that water plan

00:27:36.434 --> 00:27:38.532
would not have passed.

00:27:38.533 --> 00:27:39.433
That\'s a visionary side

00:27:39.433 --> 00:27:40.233
of Governor Brown.

00:27:40.233 --> 00:27:41.100
That although he wanted

00:27:41.101 --> 00:27:42.365
to please people,

00:27:42.366 --> 00:27:42.966
he wanted people

00:27:42.966 --> 00:27:43.966
to feel comfortable,

00:27:43.966 --> 00:27:44.966
there was also steel

00:27:44.967 --> 00:27:46.765
within the man.

00:27:46.766 --> 00:27:51.665
♪

00:27:51.666 --> 00:27:52.500
Tens of millions

00:27:52.501 --> 00:27:54.499
of Californians still rely

00:27:54.500 --> 00:27:55.965
on the State Water Project

00:27:55.966 --> 00:27:57.332
every day.

00:27:57.333 --> 00:28:01.965
♪

00:28:01.966 --> 00:28:02.966
I had never realized

00:28:02.967 --> 00:28:05.032
the scope of the project,

00:28:05.033 --> 00:28:06.033
and how close

00:28:06.034 --> 00:28:07.265
its political process

00:28:07.266 --> 00:28:09.232
had come to falling apart

00:28:09.233 --> 00:28:11.199
at every stage.

00:28:11.200 --> 00:28:18.065
♪

00:28:18.066 --> 00:28:20.965
Meat patty,

00:28:20.966 --> 00:28:25.432
616 gallons.

00:28:25.433 --> 00:28:27.365
That\'s a lot of water.

00:28:27.366 --> 00:28:29.099
Total is on the bottom.

00:28:29.100 --> 00:28:33.432
Total 690.

00:28:33.433 --> 00:28:34.433
Basically, 700 gallons

00:28:34.433 --> 00:28:35.366
of water to have

00:28:35.367 --> 00:28:37.965
a hamburger.

00:28:37.966 --> 00:28:40.965
♪

00:28:40.966 --> 00:28:41.566
The Pat Brown

00:28:41.567 --> 00:28:43.532
generation was simply

00:28:43.533 --> 00:28:44.965
structurally and politically

00:28:44.966 --> 00:28:47.599
blind to the environment.

00:28:47.600 --> 00:28:47.966
They thought

00:28:47.966 --> 00:28:48.933
the environment

00:28:48.934 --> 00:28:50.899
should be used for us.

00:28:50.900 --> 00:28:52.532
Like a big storehouse

00:28:52.533 --> 00:28:54.899
of stuff that we could

00:28:54.900 --> 00:28:56.232
devour and build

00:28:56.233 --> 00:28:58.332
things out of.

00:28:58.333 --> 00:28:58.966
Everything seemed

00:28:58.967 --> 00:29:00.199
possible.

00:29:00.200 --> 00:29:00.900
It seemed like

00:29:00.900 --> 00:29:01.833
there was a limitless

00:29:01.834 --> 00:29:03.365
supply of oil,

00:29:03.366 --> 00:29:05.965
and water, and air,

00:29:05.966 --> 00:29:08.732
and land to build on.

00:29:08.733 --> 00:29:09.400
We felt the mountains

00:29:09.400 --> 00:29:09.966
would never need

00:29:09.967 --> 00:29:11.899
the water anyway.

00:29:11.900 --> 00:29:12.666
I mean, they,

00:29:12.666 --> 00:29:13.600
there was plenty of water

00:29:13.600 --> 00:29:14.066
for them up

00:29:14.067 --> 00:29:16.965
in the mountains.

00:29:16.966 --> 00:29:17.866
Grandpa and I used to

00:29:17.867 --> 00:29:18.965
argue about water

00:29:18.966 --> 00:29:21.365
and environmental issues.

00:29:21.366 --> 00:29:22.366
He had come to believe

00:29:22.367 --> 00:29:24.532
in conservation,

00:29:24.533 --> 00:29:25.665
but he still thought

00:29:25.666 --> 00:29:26.965
moving water from one place

00:29:26.966 --> 00:29:27.866
to another was

00:29:27.867 --> 00:29:31.965
the inevitable solution.

00:29:31.966 --> 00:29:32.966
Growth will become

00:29:32.967 --> 00:29:34.665
increasingly part of our

00:29:34.666 --> 00:29:35.333
political life,

00:29:35.334 --> 00:29:36.599
political debate

00:29:36.600 --> 00:29:38.932
in the decades to come.

00:29:38.933 --> 00:29:40.899
Today, we still have

00:29:40.900 --> 00:29:43.499
the same water infrastructure

00:29:43.500 --> 00:29:43.966
that we had

00:29:43.967 --> 00:29:45.499
for 16 million people

00:29:45.500 --> 00:29:46.599
when Governor Brown

00:29:46.600 --> 00:29:47.832
was governor,

00:29:47.833 --> 00:29:48.999
for thirty-seven and half

00:29:49.000 --> 00:29:51.065
million people.

00:29:51.066 --> 00:29:51.866
And that\'s really

00:29:51.867 --> 00:29:53.199
where California is now.

00:29:53.200 --> 00:29:54.665
How does it grow

00:29:54.666 --> 00:29:55.965
without growing

00:29:55.966 --> 00:29:57.165
more problems?

00:29:57.166 --> 00:29:58.899
But growing elegantly,

00:29:58.900 --> 00:30:00.965
more efficiently,

00:30:00.966 --> 00:30:03.165
and more harmoniously

00:30:03.166 --> 00:30:05.232
with the environment.

00:30:05.233 --> 00:30:12.199
♪

00:30:12.200 --> 00:30:13.565
To advance ideas,

00:30:13.566 --> 00:30:16.832
a politician needs power,

00:30:16.833 --> 00:30:17.566
and in his second year

00:30:17.566 --> 00:30:18.233
in office,

00:30:18.233 --> 00:30:19.166
the governor took on

00:30:19.167 --> 00:30:20.399
another issue that would

00:30:20.400 --> 00:30:21.999
seriously put his power

00:30:22.000 --> 00:30:26.099
in jeopardy.

00:30:26.100 --> 00:30:28.365
I always knew when, uh,

00:30:28.366 --> 00:30:29.166
there was a,

00:30:29.167 --> 00:30:30.365
a death penalty case

00:30:30.366 --> 00:30:31.832
because they would prepare

00:30:31.833 --> 00:30:32.965
for the governor, uh,

00:30:32.966 --> 00:30:35.965
a thick black briefing book.

00:30:35.966 --> 00:30:37.532
Those nights were

00:30:37.533 --> 00:30:39.899
very dark nights.

00:30:39.900 --> 00:30:40.666
My father took

00:30:40.667 --> 00:30:42.899
each one of these cases

00:30:42.900 --> 00:30:43.666
as a life and death

00:30:43.667 --> 00:30:44.965
matter as it was.

00:30:44.966 --> 00:30:46.332
The governor

00:30:46.333 --> 00:30:49.599
has the power to, uh,

00:30:49.600 --> 00:30:51.165
pardon individuals,

00:30:51.166 --> 00:30:52.365
and that is outside

00:30:52.366 --> 00:30:53.965
the judicial system,

00:30:53.966 --> 00:30:55.432
and it\'s unreviewable.

00:30:55.433 --> 00:30:56.565
The president also has

00:30:56.566 --> 00:30:57.965
that same power,

00:30:57.966 --> 00:30:58.933
and it\'s a power

00:30:58.934 --> 00:31:03.565
that comes from, from kings.

00:31:03.566 --> 00:31:04.832
The greatest number

00:31:04.833 --> 00:31:05.500
of demonstrators

00:31:05.500 --> 00:31:06.000
and the greatest

00:31:06.000 --> 00:31:06.766
public attention

00:31:06.766 --> 00:31:07.233
was around

00:31:07.234 --> 00:31:08.532
the Chessman case.

00:31:08.533 --> 00:31:10.932
He had not killed anyone,

00:31:10.933 --> 00:31:12.865
but he had kidnapped

00:31:12.866 --> 00:31:15.399
a woman and raped her,

00:31:15.400 --> 00:31:16.366
and was convicted

00:31:16.366 --> 00:31:17.200
of that crime,

00:31:17.200 --> 00:31:17.833
and the issue

00:31:17.833 --> 00:31:18.600
was whether or not

00:31:18.600 --> 00:31:19.266
it was a,

00:31:19.267 --> 00:31:20.965
a death penalty offense,

00:31:20.966 --> 00:31:21.966
and under California

00:31:21.967 --> 00:31:24.499
law it was.

00:31:24.500 --> 00:31:24.966
The man had

00:31:24.966 --> 00:31:25.966
been convicted.

00:31:25.967 --> 00:31:27.032
He unquestionably

00:31:27.033 --> 00:31:28.965
was guilty,

00:31:28.966 --> 00:31:30.932
and my caveat was that

00:31:30.933 --> 00:31:31.433
I didn\'t believe

00:31:31.434 --> 00:31:33.032
a person who committed

00:31:33.033 --> 00:31:34.332
the crimes that he did,

00:31:34.333 --> 00:31:34.966
and that he didn\'t

00:31:34.967 --> 00:31:37.199
have exactly a fair trial.

00:31:37.200 --> 00:31:37.966
It affected my

00:31:37.967 --> 00:31:42.199
sense of justice.

00:31:42.200 --> 00:31:43.732
\"Chessman hearing,

00:31:43.733 --> 00:31:44.666
toughest decision

00:31:44.667 --> 00:31:45.832
I will make.

00:31:45.833 --> 00:31:47.332
This capital punishment,

00:31:47.333 --> 00:31:49.232
it\'s barbaric.

00:31:49.233 --> 00:31:52.399
Eleven years on death row.

00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:53.499
They are crying

00:31:53.500 --> 00:31:56.432
for blood.\"

00:31:56.433 --> 00:31:57.433
You\'re the trustee

00:31:57.433 --> 00:31:58.366
of the blind,

00:31:58.367 --> 00:31:59.965
and the crippled,

00:31:59.966 --> 00:32:00.999
and the disabled,

00:32:01.000 --> 00:32:03.065
and the poor as the governor

00:32:03.066 --> 00:32:04.432
of this state,

00:32:04.433 --> 00:32:05.532
and when you sacrifice

00:32:05.533 --> 00:32:06.965
your credibility

00:32:06.966 --> 00:32:07.966
for a foul man

00:32:07.966 --> 00:32:08.966
like Chessman,

00:32:08.967 --> 00:32:11.965
you\'re violating your trust.

00:32:11.966 --> 00:32:13.265
He agonized about it

00:32:13.266 --> 00:32:15.699
and did so publicly

00:32:15.700 --> 00:32:16.965
which led people

00:32:16.966 --> 00:32:18.032
to see him

00:32:18.033 --> 00:32:21.032
as being indecisive.

00:32:21.033 --> 00:32:21.833
\"Congratulations

00:32:21.833 --> 00:32:22.700
on being the world\'s

00:32:22.700 --> 00:32:23.266
number one

00:32:23.267 --> 00:32:26.199
self-righteous sadist.\"

00:32:26.200 --> 00:32:26.966
\"Brown, you are

00:32:26.966 --> 00:32:27.966
making a hero

00:32:27.967 --> 00:32:29.165
out of Chessman

00:32:29.166 --> 00:32:30.232
and a Republican

00:32:30.233 --> 00:32:32.099
out of me.\"

00:32:32.100 --> 00:32:33.199
I said, you know,

00:32:33.200 --> 00:32:33.966
\"Why don\'t you take

00:32:33.967 --> 00:32:35.665
a chance and go

00:32:35.666 --> 00:32:36.865
to the legislature,

00:32:36.866 --> 00:32:38.699
and see if they will

00:32:38.700 --> 00:32:39.965
put in a moratorium

00:32:39.966 --> 00:32:40.966
on capital punishment.

00:32:40.966 --> 00:32:41.933
That\'s, there,

00:32:41.934 --> 00:32:45.032
there\'s a chance.\"

00:32:45.033 --> 00:32:45.766
But they killed it

00:32:45.766 --> 00:32:46.766
in committee,

00:32:46.767 --> 00:32:49.065
and Chessman was executed.

00:32:49.066 --> 00:32:56.332
♪

00:32:56.333 --> 00:32:57.233
My mother had gone up

00:32:57.234 --> 00:32:58.965
to the Olympics,

00:32:58.966 --> 00:33:00.165
and my father didn\'t

00:33:00.166 --> 00:33:02.399
want to go because he

00:33:02.400 --> 00:33:04.365
had this on his mind.

00:33:04.366 --> 00:33:04.966
All the eyes

00:33:04.967 --> 00:33:08.432
of the world were there,

00:33:08.433 --> 00:33:09.965
and just before they

00:33:09.966 --> 00:33:11.399
shot off the cannon

00:33:11.400 --> 00:33:13.032
with all of the white doves

00:33:13.033 --> 00:33:14.099
that flew over for,

00:33:14.100 --> 00:33:14.866
you know,

00:33:14.867 --> 00:33:15.965
world peace,

00:33:15.966 --> 00:33:16.833
they introduced

00:33:16.834 --> 00:33:18.199
my mother and myself

00:33:18.200 --> 00:33:19.832
representing the governor

00:33:19.833 --> 00:33:21.332
of California,

00:33:21.333 --> 00:33:23.599
and we were booed

00:33:23.600 --> 00:33:26.199
just resoundingly.

00:33:26.200 --> 00:33:26.966
The cannon couldn\'t

00:33:26.967 --> 00:33:29.665
have come fast enough.

00:33:29.666 --> 00:33:36.999
♪

00:33:37.000 --> 00:33:37.966
People want you

00:33:37.966 --> 00:33:38.933
to act upon

00:33:38.934 --> 00:33:40.699
your conscience,

00:33:40.700 --> 00:33:42.965
but sometimes when you do

00:33:42.966 --> 00:33:43.433
and they\'re not

00:33:43.433 --> 00:33:44.266
in agreement with you,

00:33:44.266 --> 00:33:45.200
it is an obstacle,

00:33:45.201 --> 00:33:48.599
as Pat Brown observed

00:33:48.600 --> 00:33:49.000
to getting some

00:33:49.001 --> 00:33:50.999
other things done.

00:33:51.000 --> 00:33:59.000
♪

00:34:02.966 --> 00:34:04.165
With the Chessman fiasco

00:34:04.166 --> 00:34:05.965
barely out of the spotlight,

00:34:05.966 --> 00:34:07.165
the TV cameras turned

00:34:07.166 --> 00:34:08.565
to the Super Bowl

00:34:08.566 --> 00:34:10.365
of American Politics.

00:34:10.366 --> 00:34:11.732
As the hosting governor,

00:34:11.733 --> 00:34:12.733
Pat Brown entered

00:34:12.734 --> 00:34:13.832
the convention with

00:34:13.833 --> 00:34:15.965
renewed optimism.

00:34:15.966 --> 00:34:19.965
Mr. Chairman, delegates,

00:34:19.966 --> 00:34:22.965
guests of this convention,

00:34:22.966 --> 00:34:23.999
I welcome you

00:34:24.000 --> 00:34:25.965
to California

00:34:25.966 --> 00:34:29.865
and the West.

00:34:29.866 --> 00:34:30.965
He hoped that somehow

00:34:30.966 --> 00:34:32.999
he could use his control

00:34:33.000 --> 00:34:34.699
of the delegation

00:34:34.700 --> 00:34:36.932
to assist one candidate,

00:34:36.933 --> 00:34:37.965
thereby he would be

00:34:37.966 --> 00:34:39.732
owed some favors.

00:34:39.733 --> 00:34:41.099
The talk became

00:34:41.100 --> 00:34:42.165
that he was a candidate

00:34:42.166 --> 00:34:45.432
for vice president.

00:34:45.433 --> 00:34:46.100
I\'m sure he had

00:34:46.101 --> 00:34:47.399
some ambitions,

00:34:47.400 --> 00:34:48.432
either presidential

00:34:48.433 --> 00:34:49.565
or vice presidential,

00:34:49.566 --> 00:34:50.965
because from about

00:34:50.966 --> 00:34:52.265
that period on.

00:34:52.266 --> 00:34:53.499
Any governor of California

00:34:53.500 --> 00:34:54.765
was a national figure,

00:34:54.766 --> 00:34:56.732
and potentially on

00:34:56.733 --> 00:34:57.233
the ticket,

00:34:57.234 --> 00:34:58.965
so to speak.

00:34:58.966 --> 00:34:59.833
I get a call

00:34:59.834 --> 00:35:00.965
from the president

00:35:00.966 --> 00:35:03.032
of the Hearst Corporation.

00:35:03.033 --> 00:35:04.033
He, uh, \"Governor\",

00:35:04.034 --> 00:35:05.232
he said,

00:35:05.233 --> 00:35:05.966
\"how would you like

00:35:05.966 --> 00:35:06.733
to be Vice President

00:35:06.734 --> 00:35:08.599
of the United States?

00:35:08.600 --> 00:35:09.000
The ticket would

00:35:09.001 --> 00:35:11.499
be Johnson of Texas

00:35:11.500 --> 00:35:14.932
and Brown of California.\"

00:35:14.933 --> 00:35:15.366
The governor

00:35:15.367 --> 00:35:16.965
was tempted by the lure

00:35:16.966 --> 00:35:18.732
of national office,

00:35:18.733 --> 00:35:20.665
but he was conflicted.

00:35:20.666 --> 00:35:21.533
I had a tremendous

00:35:21.534 --> 00:35:22.665
respect for Kennedy.

00:35:22.666 --> 00:35:23.266
I thought he was

00:35:23.267 --> 00:35:25.599
just outstanding.

00:35:25.600 --> 00:35:26.965
In 1960,

00:35:26.966 --> 00:35:27.966
delegates actually

00:35:27.967 --> 00:35:29.532
decided on the nominee

00:35:29.533 --> 00:35:30.965
at the convention,

00:35:30.966 --> 00:35:32.165
and it was expected

00:35:32.166 --> 00:35:33.000
that the governor

00:35:33.000 --> 00:35:33.833
could control

00:35:33.834 --> 00:35:35.765
his delegation.

00:35:35.766 --> 00:35:36.999
Old man Joe Kennedy

00:35:37.000 --> 00:35:37.900
came in to see me

00:35:37.901 --> 00:35:39.399
at the mansion.

00:35:39.400 --> 00:35:39.966
He says,

00:35:39.966 --> 00:35:40.533
\"I want you to commit

00:35:40.534 --> 00:35:42.232
yourself to my son

00:35:42.233 --> 00:35:44.199
before the convention.\"

00:35:44.200 --> 00:35:45.765
And I wouldn\'t do it.

00:35:45.766 --> 00:35:46.500
So, they walked away

00:35:46.501 --> 00:35:48.832
very unhappy.

00:35:48.833 --> 00:35:49.766
Even though it might

00:35:49.767 --> 00:35:50.832
cost him his spot

00:35:50.833 --> 00:35:52.432
on the national stage,

00:35:52.433 --> 00:35:53.400
he knew it would

00:35:53.401 --> 00:35:54.965
be best for California

00:35:54.966 --> 00:35:55.966
if he didn\'t strong arm

00:35:55.967 --> 00:35:57.765
the delegates.

00:35:57.766 --> 00:35:58.066
Governor,

00:35:58.066 --> 00:35:58.766
do you feel

00:35:58.766 --> 00:35:59.433
that a majority

00:35:59.434 --> 00:36:00.965
of the California delegation

00:36:00.966 --> 00:36:01.833
will go along

00:36:01.833 --> 00:36:02.700
with your views?

00:36:02.701 --> 00:36:04.265
Sunday at two o\'clock,

00:36:04.266 --> 00:36:04.966
I\'m going to make

00:36:04.966 --> 00:36:05.733
my statement,

00:36:05.734 --> 00:36:07.399
and then, uh,

00:36:07.400 --> 00:36:08.732
the California delegation

00:36:08.733 --> 00:36:09.965
will make up their own mind

00:36:09.966 --> 00:36:10.600
on this thing.

00:36:10.601 --> 00:36:11.732
Was it true...

00:36:11.733 --> 00:36:12.932
Looking through his diary,

00:36:12.933 --> 00:36:13.965
I saw he decided

00:36:13.966 --> 00:36:14.966
to put his national

00:36:14.967 --> 00:36:16.699
ambitions to rest.

00:36:16.700 --> 00:36:17.865
He wrote,

00:36:17.866 --> 00:36:19.099
\"I must devote my time

00:36:19.100 --> 00:36:20.865
to making the best governor

00:36:20.866 --> 00:36:23.232
California ever had.\"

00:36:23.233 --> 00:36:23.766
At the end

00:36:23.767 --> 00:36:24.965
of the day, uh,

00:36:24.966 --> 00:36:25.966
the California delegation

00:36:25.966 --> 00:36:26.866
did what California

00:36:26.867 --> 00:36:27.932
delegations do,

00:36:27.933 --> 00:36:28.933
which is,

00:36:28.934 --> 00:36:30.199
balkanize and they all

00:36:30.200 --> 00:36:31.965
went with their candidates.

00:36:31.966 --> 00:36:32.600
It was just

00:36:32.601 --> 00:36:34.232
absolute bedlam.

00:36:34.233 --> 00:36:34.866
They thought

00:36:34.866 --> 00:36:35.833
I was vacillating

00:36:35.833 --> 00:36:36.233
and I couldn\'t

00:36:36.234 --> 00:36:37.732
make up my mind.

00:36:37.733 --> 00:36:38.333
People thought

00:36:38.333 --> 00:36:39.233
I didn\'t have any muscle,

00:36:39.233 --> 00:36:39.866
and I was not

00:36:39.867 --> 00:36:42.565
a forceful governor.

00:36:42.566 --> 00:36:43.599
Let me say first

00:36:43.600 --> 00:36:44.100
that I accept

00:36:44.100 --> 00:36:44.966
the nomination

00:36:44.967 --> 00:36:47.099
of the Democratic Party.

00:36:47.100 --> 00:36:51.965
♪

00:36:51.966 --> 00:36:52.600
My grandfather

00:36:52.601 --> 00:36:53.899
ultimately supported

00:36:53.900 --> 00:36:56.365
Kennedy at the convention,

00:36:56.366 --> 00:36:57.699
but the national press

00:36:57.700 --> 00:36:58.732
called him weak

00:36:58.733 --> 00:36:59.366
because he couldn\'t

00:36:59.367 --> 00:37:02.265
control his delegation.

00:37:02.266 --> 00:37:04.399
Grandpa wanted to be fair,

00:37:04.400 --> 00:37:05.000
and this attack

00:37:05.001 --> 00:37:06.365
on his character

00:37:06.366 --> 00:37:09.532
really stung.

00:37:09.533 --> 00:37:10.166
He could always see

00:37:10.167 --> 00:37:12.899
both sides of the issue,

00:37:12.900 --> 00:37:13.366
and while that would

00:37:13.367 --> 00:37:15.265
seem to be a perfectly

00:37:15.266 --> 00:37:16.965
fine trait,

00:37:16.966 --> 00:37:17.966
it\'s not a perfectly

00:37:17.967 --> 00:37:19.565
fine trait for a leader.

00:37:19.566 --> 00:37:20.899
People wanna know

00:37:20.900 --> 00:37:21.533
what direction

00:37:21.533 --> 00:37:21.966
are we going

00:37:21.966 --> 00:37:22.533
and when are we

00:37:22.534 --> 00:37:24.332
gonna get there?

00:37:24.333 --> 00:37:24.966
And nothing else

00:37:24.967 --> 00:37:26.832
much matters.

00:37:26.833 --> 00:37:34.732
♪

00:37:34.733 --> 00:37:35.932
Grandpa had an ability

00:37:35.933 --> 00:37:37.665
to keep his momentum going

00:37:37.666 --> 00:37:40.832
even after huge setbacks.

00:37:40.833 --> 00:37:41.999
I think that\'s because

00:37:42.000 --> 00:37:44.699
he had a secret weapon.

00:37:44.700 --> 00:37:48.965
Pat Brown had a wife,

00:37:48.966 --> 00:37:50.532
and Bernice Layne Brown

00:37:50.533 --> 00:37:54.332
wasn\'t an ordinary woman.

00:37:54.333 --> 00:37:54.966
While he didn\'t

00:37:54.966 --> 00:37:55.966
go to college,

00:37:55.967 --> 00:37:57.399
she went to U.C. Berkeley

00:37:57.400 --> 00:37:59.499
at the age of 15.

00:37:59.500 --> 00:38:02.965
♪

00:38:02.966 --> 00:38:05.665
She\'s a very good,

00:38:05.666 --> 00:38:06.899
moral person.

00:38:06.900 --> 00:38:07.533
I mean, you never hear

00:38:07.534 --> 00:38:08.832
her talk about anybody

00:38:08.833 --> 00:38:09.566
or any thing like that.

00:38:09.567 --> 00:38:10.765
She gets a little more angry

00:38:10.766 --> 00:38:12.999
than I do in situations.

00:38:13.000 --> 00:38:14.199
Mrs. Brown,

00:38:14.200 --> 00:38:15.699
what about your reaction

00:38:15.700 --> 00:38:16.600
when you read

00:38:16.601 --> 00:38:18.265
or hear personal criticism

00:38:18.266 --> 00:38:18.966
of your husband?

00:38:18.967 --> 00:38:20.832
Does it bother you much?

00:38:20.833 --> 00:38:21.833
I think I react

00:38:21.834 --> 00:38:23.765
like any normal female.

00:38:23.766 --> 00:38:25.165
I don\'t like it.

00:38:25.166 --> 00:38:29.099
♪

00:38:29.100 --> 00:38:29.966
When grandma died,

00:38:29.967 --> 00:38:31.265
at the age ninety,

00:38:31.266 --> 00:38:32.699
we found under her bed

00:38:32.700 --> 00:38:33.965
a box of love letters

00:38:33.966 --> 00:38:35.965
Grandpa had written to her.

00:38:35.966 --> 00:38:43.966
♪

00:38:45.066 --> 00:38:46.066
\"You\'re the sweetest,

00:38:46.067 --> 00:38:47.232
dearest, darlingest,

00:38:47.233 --> 00:38:48.732
perfectest, best,

00:38:48.733 --> 00:38:49.899
and cutest girl

00:38:49.900 --> 00:38:50.932
that ever busted

00:38:50.933 --> 00:38:53.865
through a doorway.

00:38:53.866 --> 00:38:54.733
I feel like shouting

00:38:54.733 --> 00:38:55.366
our love from

00:38:55.367 --> 00:38:59.399
the highest mountain.

00:38:59.400 --> 00:38:59.966
I don\'t know why

00:38:59.966 --> 00:39:00.666
I am writing

00:39:00.667 --> 00:39:02.065
this boastful way,

00:39:02.066 --> 00:39:03.965
but really you and I

00:39:03.966 --> 00:39:04.733
seem to crowd

00:39:04.734 --> 00:39:05.965
every other historical

00:39:05.966 --> 00:39:10.732
courtship to the precipice.\"

00:39:10.733 --> 00:39:11.932
Grandpa relied on their

00:39:11.933 --> 00:39:13.332
partnership at every step

00:39:13.333 --> 00:39:15.165
of his career.

00:39:15.166 --> 00:39:23.166
♪

00:39:48.066 --> 00:39:50.532
♪

00:39:50.533 --> 00:39:51.665
So much had happened

00:39:51.666 --> 00:39:53.399
in just a few years,

00:39:53.400 --> 00:39:54.432
and yet Grandpa

00:39:54.433 --> 00:39:55.899
wasn\'t certain he would

00:39:55.900 --> 00:39:57.232
have the political muscle

00:39:57.233 --> 00:40:00.965
to keep building California,

00:40:00.966 --> 00:40:01.966
but he was always

00:40:01.967 --> 00:40:03.099
certain he wanted

00:40:03.100 --> 00:40:04.732
his children to grow up

00:40:04.733 --> 00:40:06.765
to be leaders.

00:40:06.766 --> 00:40:12.965
♪

00:40:12.966 --> 00:40:13.700
There\'s a reason why

00:40:13.700 --> 00:40:14.600
people compare this

00:40:14.601 --> 00:40:16.399
as kind of the West Coast,

00:40:16.400 --> 00:40:17.432
uh, you know,

00:40:17.433 --> 00:40:18.865
political dynasty

00:40:18.866 --> 00:40:19.533
in the same way

00:40:19.534 --> 00:40:21.065
as the Kennedys being, uh,

00:40:21.066 --> 00:40:21.833
looked at in,

00:40:21.834 --> 00:40:24.965
in a national way.

00:40:24.966 --> 00:40:25.833
I\'ve been looking

00:40:25.834 --> 00:40:28.332
at the returns.

00:40:28.333 --> 00:40:29.965
I\'ve been watching television,

00:40:29.966 --> 00:40:31.932
watching the wire services,

00:40:31.933 --> 00:40:32.400
and it\'s pretty

00:40:32.400 --> 00:40:32.966
obvious to me that

00:40:32.966 --> 00:40:33.966
you\'ve got a Democratic

00:40:33.967 --> 00:40:38.965
governor in 1975.

00:40:38.966 --> 00:40:39.533
Jerry Brown is

00:40:39.534 --> 00:40:41.365
a curious mixture of youth.

00:40:41.366 --> 00:40:42.399
Despite the gray temples

00:40:42.400 --> 00:40:43.899
he\'s only 36,

00:40:43.900 --> 00:40:45.365
and life-long political savvy

00:40:45.366 --> 00:40:45.966
inherited from

00:40:45.967 --> 00:40:47.965
his politician father

00:40:47.966 --> 00:40:48.900
Pat Brown.

00:40:48.901 --> 00:40:50.765
He became one of the most

00:40:50.766 --> 00:40:51.965
electrifying politicians

00:40:51.966 --> 00:40:53.899
of my generation.

00:40:53.900 --> 00:40:54.366
I think he was

00:40:54.366 --> 00:40:55.333
good for California

00:40:55.334 --> 00:40:56.932
because I think

00:40:56.933 --> 00:40:58.199
he forced the state

00:40:58.200 --> 00:41:00.965
to reexamine, uh,

00:41:00.966 --> 00:41:03.565
a lot of its beliefs.

00:41:03.566 --> 00:41:04.965
In a carefully publicized

00:41:04.966 --> 00:41:05.999
gesture of contempt

00:41:06.000 --> 00:41:07.965
for the pomp of power,

00:41:07.966 --> 00:41:08.966
Jerry Brown lives

00:41:08.967 --> 00:41:10.165
in a small apartment

00:41:10.166 --> 00:41:12.332
four blocks from his office.

00:41:12.333 --> 00:41:13.399
Parked outside is

00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:15.099
the Plymouth he now uses,

00:41:15.100 --> 00:41:16.033
having sold off

00:41:16.034 --> 00:41:17.932
the state Cadillac.

00:41:17.933 --> 00:41:20.065
Jerry had a phobic reaction

00:41:20.066 --> 00:41:22.032
to his old man\'s

00:41:22.033 --> 00:41:24.099
gargantuan concepts

00:41:24.100 --> 00:41:24.900
of building,

00:41:24.900 --> 00:41:25.766
and construction,

00:41:25.767 --> 00:41:26.965
and so on,

00:41:26.966 --> 00:41:27.733
but there were

00:41:27.733 --> 00:41:28.500
real issues here,

00:41:28.501 --> 00:41:31.065
not father/son issues.

00:41:31.066 --> 00:41:32.532
Pat Brown is a Depression,

00:41:32.533 --> 00:41:33.333
World War II,

00:41:33.334 --> 00:41:35.765
post-World War II politician.

00:41:35.766 --> 00:41:36.965
Jerry looked at things

00:41:36.966 --> 00:41:38.965
totally differently.

00:41:38.966 --> 00:41:40.965
Industrial society

00:41:40.966 --> 00:41:43.065
is creating enormous

00:41:43.066 --> 00:41:45.765
residues of toxic waste,

00:41:45.766 --> 00:41:46.965
and I believe this problem

00:41:46.966 --> 00:41:47.666
is going to become

00:41:47.667 --> 00:41:49.032
more intense.

00:41:49.033 --> 00:41:50.965
Pat used to call me

00:41:50.966 --> 00:41:51.966
almost every day

00:41:51.966 --> 00:41:52.566
when I was

00:41:52.567 --> 00:41:53.965
Chief of Staff,

00:41:53.966 --> 00:41:54.400
and he would have

00:41:54.401 --> 00:41:55.965
very good suggestions,

00:41:55.966 --> 00:41:56.900
and I would share

00:41:56.901 --> 00:41:57.965
them with Jerry,

00:41:57.966 --> 00:41:59.099
but somehow we never

00:41:59.100 --> 00:42:01.332
accepted those suggestions.

00:42:01.333 --> 00:42:01.966
And then I would

00:42:01.966 --> 00:42:02.700
tell Jerry,

00:42:02.701 --> 00:42:03.732
\"Here\'s some ideas that

00:42:03.733 --> 00:42:04.899
some of us on the staff

00:42:04.900 --> 00:42:05.666
were kicking around.\"

00:42:05.667 --> 00:42:06.765
And lo and behold, you know,

00:42:06.766 --> 00:42:07.400
about half of \'em

00:42:07.401 --> 00:42:08.432
we would do.

00:42:08.433 --> 00:42:09.200
And I would tell Pat,

00:42:09.200 --> 00:42:10.100
\"Your son is going

00:42:10.101 --> 00:42:11.532
to embrace this idea,

00:42:11.533 --> 00:42:12.033
but don\'t go telling

00:42:12.034 --> 00:42:14.965
anyone it was your idea.\"

00:42:14.966 --> 00:42:16.532
He\'s a man of his own,

00:42:16.533 --> 00:42:19.065
and I\'m a very,

00:42:19.066 --> 00:42:20.965
very strong person,

00:42:20.966 --> 00:42:22.099
even when he was governor

00:42:22.100 --> 00:42:22.966
I\'d try to tell him

00:42:22.966 --> 00:42:23.500
that he ought to get

00:42:23.500 --> 00:42:24.433
to bed earlier,

00:42:24.433 --> 00:42:25.366
what he should eat,

00:42:25.366 --> 00:42:25.966
and he\'d say to me,

00:42:25.967 --> 00:42:29.265
\"Dad, I\'m governor!\"

00:42:29.266 --> 00:42:29.833
You know when

00:42:29.834 --> 00:42:30.932
you run for public office

00:42:30.933 --> 00:42:32.332
you have somewhat

00:42:32.333 --> 00:42:33.965
of a missionary complex.

00:42:33.966 --> 00:42:34.966
I mean you think that

00:42:34.966 --> 00:42:35.966
you\'re the only guy

00:42:35.967 --> 00:42:37.399
or the only person

00:42:37.400 --> 00:42:40.565
that can do this job.

00:42:40.566 --> 00:42:41.433
Uncle Jerry ran

00:42:41.434 --> 00:42:42.665
for national office

00:42:42.666 --> 00:42:44.499
many times.

00:42:44.500 --> 00:42:45.965
He didn\'t win those races,

00:42:45.966 --> 00:42:46.966
but Grandpa loved

00:42:46.966 --> 00:42:47.500
that he gave those

00:42:47.501 --> 00:42:50.965
candidates a good fight.

00:42:50.966 --> 00:42:55.932
And I want to thank

00:42:55.933 --> 00:42:57.965
one other person

00:42:57.966 --> 00:43:00.932
who\'s not here tonight,

00:43:00.933 --> 00:43:01.666
and is missing

00:43:01.667 --> 00:43:05.365
his first convention

00:43:05.366 --> 00:43:07.099
since the Depression.

00:43:07.100 --> 00:43:08.100
And in my view,

00:43:08.101 --> 00:43:09.399
he\'s the greatest democrat

00:43:09.400 --> 00:43:10.832
in this country,

00:43:10.833 --> 00:43:13.532
my father Pat Brown.

00:43:13.533 --> 00:43:15.565
Dad, thanks a lot

00:43:15.566 --> 00:43:19.965
for everything you\'ve done.

00:43:19.966 --> 00:43:20.400
Who do you think

00:43:20.400 --> 00:43:20.966
been\'s the best

00:43:20.966 --> 00:43:21.966
governor of California?

00:43:21.967 --> 00:43:23.965
I hate to be immodest,

00:43:23.966 --> 00:43:28.732
but I think I\'ve been.

00:43:28.733 --> 00:43:29.433
And the second best

00:43:29.434 --> 00:43:32.199
has been my son.

00:43:32.200 --> 00:43:36.232
♪

00:43:36.233 --> 00:43:36.966
What did people talk

00:43:36.967 --> 00:43:38.432
about in your household?

00:43:38.433 --> 00:43:38.933
What did...

00:43:38.934 --> 00:43:40.965
Politics, politics,

00:43:40.966 --> 00:43:42.765
and politics.

00:43:42.766 --> 00:43:43.999
It was my father\'s

00:43:44.000 --> 00:43:45.599
consuming interest

00:43:45.600 --> 00:43:46.732
his entire life.

00:43:46.733 --> 00:43:48.499
It was the family business.

00:43:48.500 --> 00:43:49.765
There wasn\'t small talk,

00:43:49.766 --> 00:43:51.265
there wasn\'t gossip,

00:43:51.266 --> 00:43:52.066
there were

00:43:52.067 --> 00:43:53.699
challenging conversations

00:43:53.700 --> 00:43:55.965
about issues of the day.

00:43:55.966 --> 00:43:56.900
My mother was quite

00:43:56.901 --> 00:43:58.332
insistent that we all

00:43:58.333 --> 00:43:59.565
wait until my father

00:43:59.566 --> 00:44:00.932
get home so we would

00:44:00.933 --> 00:44:02.532
have a family dinner.

00:44:02.533 --> 00:44:03.999
Those dinners sometimes

00:44:04.000 --> 00:44:05.065
were quite cold

00:44:05.066 --> 00:44:06.165
and quite late,

00:44:06.166 --> 00:44:08.232
but we waited.

00:44:08.233 --> 00:44:08.733
You know,

00:44:08.733 --> 00:44:09.200
the funny thing

00:44:09.200 --> 00:44:09.966
about Grandpa

00:44:09.967 --> 00:44:11.365
is that he used

00:44:11.366 --> 00:44:12.366
to tell me,

00:44:12.366 --> 00:44:12.966
\"Maybe you might be

00:44:12.967 --> 00:44:14.599
the one in your generation

00:44:14.600 --> 00:44:17.099
to go into political life.\"

00:44:17.100 --> 00:44:18.066
I think he wanted

00:44:18.066 --> 00:44:19.000
everybody to run

00:44:19.001 --> 00:44:20.065
for political office,

00:44:20.066 --> 00:44:21.232
everyone in the family.

00:44:21.233 --> 00:44:22.166
I mean, he,

00:44:22.167 --> 00:44:23.965
that was what he loved

00:44:23.966 --> 00:44:25.232
and he wanted us to do

00:44:25.233 --> 00:44:26.765
what he loved.

00:44:26.766 --> 00:44:27.766
Every time he called me,

00:44:27.766 --> 00:44:28.333
he said,

00:44:28.333 --> 00:44:28.966
\"Why don\'t you run

00:44:28.967 --> 00:44:30.865
for public office?\"

00:44:30.866 --> 00:44:31.233
This is when

00:44:31.234 --> 00:44:33.032
I\'m getting a PhD.

00:44:33.033 --> 00:44:34.399
I should run for public office.

00:44:34.400 --> 00:44:35.266
I was pretty set

00:44:35.267 --> 00:44:36.732
in my career pattern

00:44:36.733 --> 00:44:37.965
at that point,

00:44:37.966 --> 00:44:38.666
but he still thought

00:44:38.667 --> 00:44:40.899
it was not too late.

00:44:40.900 --> 00:44:42.865
My other aunt, Cynthia,

00:44:42.866 --> 00:44:44.332
is a lot of fun,

00:44:44.333 --> 00:44:45.333
but I never knew she

00:44:45.334 --> 00:44:47.865
had the political bug.

00:44:47.866 --> 00:44:48.965
I was in a sorority.

00:44:48.966 --> 00:44:50.165
They needed somebody to run,

00:44:50.166 --> 00:44:51.199
but I was so happy,

00:44:51.200 --> 00:44:51.866
you know,

00:44:51.866 --> 00:44:52.600
telling my father,

00:44:52.600 --> 00:44:53.033
\"I\'m running

00:44:53.034 --> 00:44:54.965
for junior councilwoman.\"

00:44:54.966 --> 00:44:55.933
And I almost won.

00:44:55.933 --> 00:44:56.900
I think I lost by

00:44:56.901 --> 00:44:58.965
about five votes.

00:44:58.966 --> 00:45:03.699
♪

00:45:03.700 --> 00:45:04.965
Kathleen is the youngest

00:45:04.966 --> 00:45:07.999
of Pat Brown\'s children.

00:45:08.000 --> 00:45:08.966
Like her dad,

00:45:08.966 --> 00:45:09.900
she had a vision

00:45:09.901 --> 00:45:12.932
for California,

00:45:12.933 --> 00:45:16.499
and she\'s my mother.

00:45:16.500 --> 00:45:16.966
Kathleen was

00:45:16.967 --> 00:45:17.999
the apple of his eye.

00:45:18.000 --> 00:45:19.199
I mean,

00:45:19.200 --> 00:45:20.532
he thought that Kathleen

00:45:20.533 --> 00:45:21.599
would be the greatest

00:45:21.600 --> 00:45:25.932
Brown governor of all.

00:45:25.933 --> 00:45:27.199
I was really excited

00:45:27.200 --> 00:45:28.565
when she won her election

00:45:28.566 --> 00:45:29.566
for the Los Angeles

00:45:29.567 --> 00:45:32.999
School Board in 1975.

00:45:33.000 --> 00:45:34.732
In 1990,

00:45:34.733 --> 00:45:35.965
Mom was easily elected

00:45:35.966 --> 00:45:38.199
State Treasurer.

00:45:38.200 --> 00:45:39.066
Please put your hands

00:45:39.066 --> 00:45:39.766
on the Bible

00:45:39.767 --> 00:45:41.732
and repeat after me.

00:45:41.733 --> 00:45:42.600
Grandpa loved

00:45:42.601 --> 00:45:43.932
swearing in his daughter

00:45:43.933 --> 00:45:47.732
to a major state office.

00:45:47.733 --> 00:45:48.932
Before long,

00:45:48.933 --> 00:45:49.866
people were saying

00:45:49.867 --> 00:45:51.899
she should run for governor,

00:45:51.900 --> 00:45:53.032
and in 1994,

00:45:53.033 --> 00:45:54.065
she decided to go

00:45:54.066 --> 00:45:55.000
for California\'s

00:45:55.001 --> 00:45:58.199
highest office.

00:45:58.200 --> 00:45:59.100
I remember when Mom

00:45:59.101 --> 00:46:01.099
sat the whole family down.

00:46:01.100 --> 00:46:01.866
She said we had

00:46:01.867 --> 00:46:03.065
to tell her if we had

00:46:03.066 --> 00:46:04.332
ever done anything

00:46:04.333 --> 00:46:05.066
that her opponent

00:46:05.067 --> 00:46:06.999
could use against her.

00:46:07.000 --> 00:46:08.065
Many thoughts flashed

00:46:08.066 --> 00:46:09.532
through my mind.

00:46:09.533 --> 00:46:10.765
None of which I wanted

00:46:10.766 --> 00:46:12.965
to share with my mother,

00:46:12.966 --> 00:46:13.966
but it turned out

00:46:13.967 --> 00:46:15.099
the issues in the campaign

00:46:15.100 --> 00:46:15.966
provided plenty

00:46:15.967 --> 00:46:19.365
of material for her rival.

00:46:19.366 --> 00:46:20.499
They keep coming.

00:46:20.500 --> 00:46:21.333
Two million illegals

00:46:21.334 --> 00:46:22.432
in California.

00:46:22.433 --> 00:46:23.033
And I\'m working to

00:46:23.034 --> 00:46:24.065
deny state services

00:46:24.066 --> 00:46:25.599
to illegal immigrants.

00:46:25.600 --> 00:46:27.965
Enough is enough.

00:46:27.966 --> 00:46:29.032
In her platform,

00:46:29.033 --> 00:46:29.966
Mom opposed

00:46:29.967 --> 00:46:31.599
the very controversial

00:46:31.600 --> 00:46:34.565
Proposition 187.

00:46:34.566 --> 00:46:35.965
Prop 187 was calling

00:46:35.966 --> 00:46:38.399
for denying basic services

00:46:38.400 --> 00:46:39.965
to people who were here

00:46:39.966 --> 00:46:41.199
who were undocumented.

00:46:41.200 --> 00:46:41.966
But yet, we\'re all gonna

00:46:41.966 --> 00:46:42.966
live side-by-side

00:46:42.967 --> 00:46:44.899
with each other?

00:46:44.900 --> 00:46:45.566
He\'s organized

00:46:45.567 --> 00:46:46.865
his whole campaign

00:46:46.866 --> 00:46:48.065
around the wedge issues,

00:46:48.066 --> 00:46:49.665
and the fear issues

00:46:49.666 --> 00:46:50.333
of crime

00:46:50.334 --> 00:46:52.232
and illegal immigration.

00:46:52.233 --> 00:46:53.965
Her vision for the state

00:46:53.966 --> 00:46:55.232
ran smack up against

00:46:55.233 --> 00:46:55.866
a lot of things

00:46:55.866 --> 00:46:56.500
that were going on,

00:46:56.501 --> 00:46:57.765
especially with immigration,

00:46:57.766 --> 00:46:58.366
and law and order,

00:46:58.367 --> 00:46:59.965
and a lot of concern

00:46:59.966 --> 00:47:00.966
in a very tenacious

00:47:00.967 --> 00:47:03.199
campaigner in Pete Wilson.

00:47:03.200 --> 00:47:04.565
The immigration

00:47:04.566 --> 00:47:06.165
issue was clearly

00:47:06.166 --> 00:47:07.965
an issue in California.

00:47:07.966 --> 00:47:09.965
I think that she

00:47:09.966 --> 00:47:12.965
made a mistake.

00:47:12.966 --> 00:47:15.599
It was a brutal campaign,

00:47:15.600 --> 00:47:16.433
and election night

00:47:16.434 --> 00:47:17.499
was incredibly hard

00:47:17.500 --> 00:47:20.499
for our family.

00:47:20.500 --> 00:47:22.565
While we all worked hard

00:47:22.566 --> 00:47:24.365
and worked with passion

00:47:24.366 --> 00:47:25.965
for a different result,

00:47:25.966 --> 00:47:26.966
tonight we must

00:47:26.967 --> 00:47:28.665
accept the verdict of

00:47:28.666 --> 00:47:31.165
the people of California.

00:47:31.166 --> 00:47:35.865
♪

00:47:35.866 --> 00:47:36.433
There are lots of things

00:47:36.433 --> 00:47:37.200
I could have done,

00:47:37.200 --> 00:47:38.200
I should have done,

00:47:38.200 --> 00:47:39.200
could have done differently.

00:47:39.200 --> 00:47:39.966
Didn\'t.

00:47:39.967 --> 00:47:42.065
But on issues,

00:47:42.066 --> 00:47:43.066
I felt that I had

00:47:43.067 --> 00:47:44.165
conducted my campaign

00:47:44.166 --> 00:47:44.966
with integrity,

00:47:44.967 --> 00:47:46.865
and ultimately that\'s

00:47:46.866 --> 00:47:47.965
what life is all about

00:47:47.966 --> 00:47:49.332
in whatever endeavour

00:47:49.333 --> 00:47:51.099
you\'re in.

00:47:51.100 --> 00:47:51.933
And I learned that

00:47:51.934 --> 00:47:53.165
from my father.

00:47:53.166 --> 00:48:00.265
♪

00:48:00.266 --> 00:48:01.200
Every campaign

00:48:01.201 --> 00:48:02.599
is a mixture of timing,

00:48:02.600 --> 00:48:05.032
skill, and luck.

00:48:05.033 --> 00:48:06.665
I was surprised to learn

00:48:06.666 --> 00:48:07.566
my grandfather

00:48:07.567 --> 00:48:08.732
faced an opponent

00:48:08.733 --> 00:48:09.965
who even he thought

00:48:09.966 --> 00:48:11.965
he couldn\'t beat.

00:48:11.966 --> 00:48:14.399
What we need is government

00:48:14.400 --> 00:48:14.966
which will give

00:48:14.967 --> 00:48:16.165
greater opportunity

00:48:16.166 --> 00:48:17.033
for Californians,

00:48:17.034 --> 00:48:18.599
better jobs,

00:48:18.600 --> 00:48:20.399
higher wages.

00:48:20.400 --> 00:48:21.366
I want this to be

00:48:21.367 --> 00:48:22.699
the greatest opportunity

00:48:22.700 --> 00:48:24.032
state in America.

00:48:24.033 --> 00:48:24.966
This is the way

00:48:24.967 --> 00:48:26.832
to build a greater America,

00:48:26.833 --> 00:48:27.400
and this is the way

00:48:27.400 --> 00:48:28.233
that the first state,

00:48:28.234 --> 00:48:29.399
California,

00:48:29.400 --> 00:48:31.332
can lead America.

00:48:31.333 --> 00:48:31.966
We have rolled our

00:48:31.967 --> 00:48:33.499
cameras into California

00:48:33.500 --> 00:48:34.965
to show you what we suspect

00:48:34.966 --> 00:48:36.065
is the most significant

00:48:36.066 --> 00:48:37.099
single contest

00:48:37.100 --> 00:48:39.599
in the 1962 elections.

00:48:39.600 --> 00:48:40.200
The present governor

00:48:40.200 --> 00:48:40.966
of California,

00:48:40.966 --> 00:48:41.966
Pat Brown,

00:48:41.966 --> 00:48:42.900
is running against

00:48:42.901 --> 00:48:44.099
a former Vice President

00:48:44.100 --> 00:48:44.966
in what amounts to

00:48:44.967 --> 00:48:46.065
political survival

00:48:46.066 --> 00:48:47.565
or sudden death

00:48:47.566 --> 00:48:50.199
for both candidates.

00:48:50.200 --> 00:48:51.332
Pat was not all

00:48:51.333 --> 00:48:51.966
that popular

00:48:51.966 --> 00:48:52.866
really heading

00:48:52.866 --> 00:48:53.433
into his reelection.

00:48:53.434 --> 00:48:54.999
He\'d used a lot

00:48:55.000 --> 00:48:56.265
of political capital

00:48:56.266 --> 00:48:57.033
to accomplish things,

00:48:57.033 --> 00:48:57.966
to accomplish

00:48:57.966 --> 00:48:58.966
the water project

00:48:58.966 --> 00:48:59.933
and other, uh,

00:48:59.934 --> 00:49:01.565
things in his first term.

00:49:01.566 --> 00:49:02.965
Richard Nixon had been

00:49:02.966 --> 00:49:04.999
at the very doorstep

00:49:05.000 --> 00:49:06.699
of the White House.

00:49:06.700 --> 00:49:07.965
So, everybody assumed that

00:49:07.966 --> 00:49:10.599
Nixon would win easily.

00:49:10.600 --> 00:49:11.665
Nixon really

00:49:11.666 --> 00:49:12.166
frightened me

00:49:12.166 --> 00:49:12.966
with the fact

00:49:12.966 --> 00:49:13.766
that he defeated

00:49:13.767 --> 00:49:15.965
Kennedy in California,

00:49:15.966 --> 00:49:16.433
and only lost

00:49:16.433 --> 00:49:17.066
the presidency

00:49:17.067 --> 00:49:20.999
by relatively few votes.

00:49:21.000 --> 00:49:22.432
Enthusiastic Nixonettes

00:49:22.433 --> 00:49:23.965
are at hand and twisting

00:49:23.966 --> 00:49:25.065
to welcome back to the site

00:49:25.066 --> 00:49:25.966
where he started

00:49:25.967 --> 00:49:27.732
his first political campaign,

00:49:27.733 --> 00:49:28.865
former Vice President

00:49:28.866 --> 00:49:30.732
Richard Nixon.

00:49:30.733 --> 00:49:31.765
The governor defended

00:49:31.766 --> 00:49:33.065
his record of public works

00:49:33.066 --> 00:49:34.865
in the state.

00:49:34.866 --> 00:49:35.965
If I hadn\'t fought

00:49:35.966 --> 00:49:36.966
mountain senators

00:49:36.967 --> 00:49:38.165
that were against me,

00:49:38.166 --> 00:49:40.099
Northern California senators,

00:49:40.100 --> 00:49:40.966
if I hadn\'t fought

00:49:40.966 --> 00:49:41.666
them all,

00:49:41.666 --> 00:49:42.100
you wouldn\'t have

00:49:42.100 --> 00:49:43.000
had a water program.

00:49:43.000 --> 00:49:43.700
If you didn\'t have

00:49:43.700 --> 00:49:44.366
a water program

00:49:44.367 --> 00:49:45.665
this state could come

00:49:45.666 --> 00:49:46.965
to a dead stop.

00:49:46.966 --> 00:49:52.932
♪

00:49:52.933 --> 00:49:53.733
Mr. Nixon

00:49:53.734 --> 00:49:55.565
doesn\'t know California

00:49:55.566 --> 00:49:56.832
and he really doesn\'t

00:49:56.833 --> 00:49:57.965
care about it.

00:49:57.966 --> 00:49:58.999
He wants to double park

00:49:59.000 --> 00:50:01.065
outside the state capitol

00:50:01.066 --> 00:50:02.665
while he checks the roadmap

00:50:02.666 --> 00:50:04.399
to Washington.

00:50:04.400 --> 00:50:05.499
I have completely

00:50:05.500 --> 00:50:06.000
blocked out

00:50:06.001 --> 00:50:08.499
any thought of running

00:50:08.500 --> 00:50:09.965
for national office

00:50:09.966 --> 00:50:11.165
because as I see it,

00:50:11.166 --> 00:50:11.966
the job of governor

00:50:11.966 --> 00:50:12.700
of California

00:50:12.700 --> 00:50:13.566
is going to require

00:50:13.567 --> 00:50:15.965
my complete concentration.

00:50:15.966 --> 00:50:17.065
Dick Nixon had no interest

00:50:17.066 --> 00:50:19.432
in being governor,

00:50:19.433 --> 00:50:21.832
and it showed up.

00:50:21.833 --> 00:50:22.433
He was talking about

00:50:22.434 --> 00:50:23.499
communism when he was

00:50:23.500 --> 00:50:23.966
running against

00:50:23.967 --> 00:50:25.965
Pat Brown.

00:50:25.966 --> 00:50:28.099
I mean, it was ludicrous.

00:50:28.100 --> 00:50:29.100
I remember Mr. Khrushchev

00:50:29.101 --> 00:50:30.265
telling me that.

00:50:30.266 --> 00:50:30.966
\"Come along,

00:50:30.966 --> 00:50:31.600
follow us,

00:50:31.601 --> 00:50:32.865
do as we do.\"

00:50:32.866 --> 00:50:34.899
What we have to decide

00:50:34.900 --> 00:50:35.965
is whether in order

00:50:35.966 --> 00:50:37.599
to beat them

00:50:37.600 --> 00:50:38.366
we are going

00:50:38.367 --> 00:50:39.732
to send more power

00:50:39.733 --> 00:50:40.965
to government

00:50:40.966 --> 00:50:42.665
or give more power

00:50:42.666 --> 00:50:43.965
to individuals,

00:50:43.966 --> 00:50:45.265
and I say

00:50:45.266 --> 00:50:46.965
let\'s play our game

00:50:46.966 --> 00:50:48.899
not theirs.

00:50:48.900 --> 00:50:50.032
Just like today,

00:50:50.033 --> 00:50:51.000
political fights

00:50:51.000 --> 00:50:52.000
always include

00:50:52.001 --> 00:50:53.099
the inevitable

00:50:53.100 --> 00:50:54.432
dirty tricks.

00:50:54.433 --> 00:50:55.200
And in this book,

00:50:55.200 --> 00:50:56.033
they have these

00:50:56.034 --> 00:50:58.365
cropped pictures of me.

00:50:58.366 --> 00:50:58.866
You can see

00:50:58.867 --> 00:51:00.432
this picture of me

00:51:00.433 --> 00:51:02.432
apparently in prayer.

00:51:02.433 --> 00:51:04.699
\"Brown is a red appeaser.\"

00:51:04.700 --> 00:51:05.965
This picture was taken

00:51:05.966 --> 00:51:06.833
with a little girl

00:51:06.833 --> 00:51:07.700
from Laos.

00:51:07.700 --> 00:51:08.400
She was showing me

00:51:08.400 --> 00:51:09.233
the way they said

00:51:09.234 --> 00:51:10.965
goodbye in Laos.

00:51:10.966 --> 00:51:12.099
This is McCarthyism

00:51:12.100 --> 00:51:14.865
of the worst kind.

00:51:14.866 --> 00:51:16.965
I have made mistakes,

00:51:16.966 --> 00:51:19.532
but I am an honest man.

00:51:19.533 --> 00:51:20.965
All the people of California

00:51:20.966 --> 00:51:23.565
are listening on television,

00:51:23.566 --> 00:51:24.100
and Governor Brown

00:51:24.100 --> 00:51:24.933
has a chance

00:51:24.934 --> 00:51:26.865
to stand up as a man

00:51:26.866 --> 00:51:27.533
and charge me

00:51:27.534 --> 00:51:28.765
with misconduct.

00:51:28.766 --> 00:51:29.965
Do it, sir!

00:51:29.966 --> 00:51:35.832
♪

00:51:35.833 --> 00:51:36.666
Well, I was taken aback

00:51:36.667 --> 00:51:37.832
because we weren\'t

00:51:37.833 --> 00:51:38.433
supposed to ask

00:51:38.434 --> 00:51:39.899
each other questions.

00:51:39.900 --> 00:51:40.266
He hit me right

00:51:40.267 --> 00:51:43.332
in the jaw with it.

00:51:43.333 --> 00:51:43.966
The polls were

00:51:43.966 --> 00:51:44.966
way against me.

00:51:44.966 --> 00:51:45.566
I had lost

00:51:45.567 --> 00:51:46.899
considerable prestige

00:51:46.900 --> 00:51:47.900
by two things.

00:51:47.900 --> 00:51:48.500
Number one,

00:51:48.500 --> 00:51:49.500
the Chessman case,

00:51:49.500 --> 00:51:50.400
and number two,

00:51:50.401 --> 00:51:52.365
my inability ostensibly

00:51:52.366 --> 00:51:52.966
to control

00:51:52.967 --> 00:51:54.965
the \'60 delegation.

00:51:54.966 --> 00:51:56.065
I\'m Governor Pat Brown,

00:51:56.066 --> 00:51:57.532
and I\'m visiting you...

00:51:57.533 --> 00:51:58.066
And then one

00:51:58.066 --> 00:51:58.833
of the most

00:51:58.833 --> 00:51:59.533
frightening events

00:51:59.533 --> 00:52:00.366
of the decade

00:52:00.366 --> 00:52:00.966
caught the world

00:52:00.967 --> 00:52:02.999
by surprise.

00:52:03.000 --> 00:52:03.866
It shall be

00:52:03.867 --> 00:52:05.832
the policy of this nation

00:52:05.833 --> 00:52:06.566
to regard any

00:52:06.567 --> 00:52:07.999
nuclear missile

00:52:08.000 --> 00:52:09.032
launched from Cuba

00:52:09.033 --> 00:52:10.099
against any nation

00:52:10.100 --> 00:52:12.032
in the Western Hemisphere

00:52:12.033 --> 00:52:13.699
as an attack

00:52:13.700 --> 00:52:14.600
by the Soviet Union

00:52:14.601 --> 00:52:16.399
on the United States

00:52:16.400 --> 00:52:17.565
requiring a full

00:52:17.566 --> 00:52:19.699
retaliatory response

00:52:19.700 --> 00:52:21.532
upon the Soviet Union.

00:52:21.533 --> 00:52:21.966
In the last week

00:52:21.967 --> 00:52:22.999
of the campaign

00:52:23.000 --> 00:52:25.832
we had the Cuban Crisis.

00:52:25.833 --> 00:52:26.400
We all thought,

00:52:26.401 --> 00:52:28.232
this was it.

00:52:28.233 --> 00:52:30.199
And that was the news.

00:52:30.200 --> 00:52:30.833
All the people

00:52:30.833 --> 00:52:31.200
in the country

00:52:31.201 --> 00:52:32.665
were really afraid

00:52:32.666 --> 00:52:34.099
of getting blown up.

00:52:34.100 --> 00:52:39.265
♪

00:52:39.266 --> 00:52:39.966
I called off

00:52:39.967 --> 00:52:41.699
all the speeches

00:52:41.700 --> 00:52:42.500
and flew back

00:52:42.501 --> 00:52:44.065
to Washington.

00:52:44.066 --> 00:52:45.165
I was the Vice Chairman

00:52:45.166 --> 00:52:47.332
of the Civil Defense Committee.

00:52:47.333 --> 00:52:48.899
I was back with Kennedy.

00:52:48.900 --> 00:52:49.566
I could see he was

00:52:49.567 --> 00:52:52.732
terribly concerned.

00:52:52.733 --> 00:52:53.765
The campaign died.

00:52:53.766 --> 00:52:54.766
It was like a balloon

00:52:54.767 --> 00:52:56.232
losing all of its air,

00:52:56.233 --> 00:52:56.933
and I became

00:52:56.934 --> 00:52:58.765
a national figure.

00:52:58.766 --> 00:53:00.499
My fellow Americans,

00:53:00.500 --> 00:53:01.599
let us step back

00:53:01.600 --> 00:53:03.965
from the shadows of war

00:53:03.966 --> 00:53:04.533
and seek out

00:53:04.534 --> 00:53:06.899
the way of peace.

00:53:06.900 --> 00:53:07.733
The President led us

00:53:07.733 --> 00:53:08.733
away from the brink

00:53:08.734 --> 00:53:11.865
of an unthinkable disaster.

00:53:11.866 --> 00:53:12.100
The governor

00:53:12.101 --> 00:53:13.732
left Washington D.C.

00:53:13.733 --> 00:53:16.532
and come home to vote.

00:53:16.533 --> 00:53:17.500
Well into the night,

00:53:17.500 --> 00:53:18.500
Grandpa was trailing

00:53:18.501 --> 00:53:20.565
in the polls.

00:53:20.566 --> 00:53:21.965
I was in Catholic Girls

00:53:21.966 --> 00:53:23.099
Boarding school,

00:53:23.100 --> 00:53:24.432
and I called

00:53:24.433 --> 00:53:25.965
the headquarters,

00:53:25.966 --> 00:53:26.766
and I just told him

00:53:26.767 --> 00:53:28.432
that I didn\'t know

00:53:28.433 --> 00:53:29.400
what the result was

00:53:29.401 --> 00:53:30.565
but wanted him to know

00:53:30.566 --> 00:53:31.566
that I loved him

00:53:31.567 --> 00:53:32.765
no matter what.

00:53:32.766 --> 00:53:33.666
And he said,

00:53:33.667 --> 00:53:34.765
\"It\'ll be a long night.

00:53:34.766 --> 00:53:35.965
It\'ll probably be a long night.\"

00:53:35.966 --> 00:53:36.833
I was in Hunters Point

00:53:36.833 --> 00:53:37.500
in San Francisco

00:53:37.500 --> 00:53:38.333
in an African American

00:53:38.333 --> 00:53:39.200
neighborhood,

00:53:39.200 --> 00:53:39.833
and I noticed

00:53:39.834 --> 00:53:40.965
toward the close of polls

00:53:40.966 --> 00:53:41.400
a lot of people

00:53:41.401 --> 00:53:42.432
were standing in line,

00:53:42.433 --> 00:53:42.933
and so I was

00:53:42.933 --> 00:53:43.433
encouraging them,

00:53:43.434 --> 00:53:44.599
\"Don\'t go away.\"

00:53:44.600 --> 00:53:45.433
And there weren\'t enough

00:53:45.434 --> 00:53:46.899
voting machines and,

00:53:46.900 --> 00:53:47.266
and they had

00:53:47.267 --> 00:53:48.965
to wait in line.

00:53:48.966 --> 00:53:50.732
About midnight,

00:53:50.733 --> 00:53:51.333
I got a,

00:53:51.333 --> 00:53:51.966
there was a knock

00:53:51.967 --> 00:53:53.099
at the door,

00:53:53.100 --> 00:53:54.000
and there were

00:53:54.001 --> 00:53:55.532
two of the nuns,

00:53:55.533 --> 00:53:55.966
and they had

00:53:55.966 --> 00:53:56.866
a little cupcake

00:53:56.866 --> 00:53:57.500
with a little candle

00:53:57.501 --> 00:53:59.399
in it to say he won.

00:53:59.400 --> 00:54:00.400
In California,

00:54:00.400 --> 00:54:01.333
democratic Governor

00:54:01.334 --> 00:54:02.565
Edmund G. Brown

00:54:02.566 --> 00:54:03.599
is returned to office

00:54:03.600 --> 00:54:05.099
by the booming state.

00:54:05.100 --> 00:54:07.099
He defeats Richard M. Nixon

00:54:07.100 --> 00:54:08.399
after one of California\'s

00:54:08.400 --> 00:54:09.432
longest, hardest,

00:54:09.433 --> 00:54:12.699
and most bitter campaigns.

00:54:12.700 --> 00:54:13.965
This victory earned Grandpa

00:54:13.966 --> 00:54:14.866
the nickname,

00:54:14.867 --> 00:54:16.965
\"The Giant Killer\".

00:54:16.966 --> 00:54:17.733
But the campaign\'s

00:54:17.734 --> 00:54:19.232
most famous quote came

00:54:19.233 --> 00:54:19.966
from the man

00:54:19.967 --> 00:54:21.865
who was defeated.

00:54:21.866 --> 00:54:23.365
But as I leave you, uh,

00:54:23.366 --> 00:54:25.899
I want you to know

00:54:25.900 --> 00:54:26.366
just think how much

00:54:26.367 --> 00:54:28.432
you\'re gonna be missing.

00:54:28.433 --> 00:54:29.100
You don\'t have Nixon

00:54:29.101 --> 00:54:31.199
to kick around anymore

00:54:31.200 --> 00:54:32.965
because gentlemen,

00:54:32.966 --> 00:54:33.866
this is my last

00:54:33.867 --> 00:54:37.965
press conference.

00:54:37.966 --> 00:54:38.766
Governor Pat Brown

00:54:38.767 --> 00:54:40.065
of California joins with

00:54:40.066 --> 00:54:41.732
Universal Pictures executives

00:54:41.733 --> 00:54:42.500
to open the new

00:54:42.501 --> 00:54:43.965
studio center.

00:54:43.966 --> 00:54:44.966
Giant killer,

00:54:44.967 --> 00:54:46.365
master builder,

00:54:46.366 --> 00:54:47.432
everything was in place

00:54:47.433 --> 00:54:48.599
for a productive,

00:54:48.600 --> 00:54:49.665
even an easy,

00:54:49.666 --> 00:54:50.965
second term.

00:54:50.966 --> 00:54:51.500
We\'ve developed

00:54:51.500 --> 00:54:52.033
the nation\'s

00:54:52.034 --> 00:54:53.199
first Master Plan

00:54:53.200 --> 00:54:54.832
for Higher Education

00:54:54.833 --> 00:54:55.500
that will in the next

00:54:55.500 --> 00:54:56.033
thirty years

00:54:56.034 --> 00:54:57.865
educate more people

00:54:57.866 --> 00:54:58.266
than any other

00:54:58.267 --> 00:54:59.532
educational institution

00:54:59.533 --> 00:55:07.533
in the entire world.

00:55:10.266 --> 00:55:11.699
There\'s a time when

00:55:11.700 --> 00:55:12.500
the operation

00:55:12.501 --> 00:55:13.599
of the machine

00:55:13.600 --> 00:55:15.565
becomes so odious,

00:55:15.566 --> 00:55:17.599
makes you so sick at heart,

00:55:17.600 --> 00:55:18.333
and you\'ve got to put

00:55:18.334 --> 00:55:19.965
your bodies upon the gears

00:55:19.966 --> 00:55:21.365
and upon the wheels,

00:55:21.366 --> 00:55:22.532
upon all the apparatus,

00:55:22.533 --> 00:55:22.966
and you\'ve got

00:55:22.967 --> 00:55:26.565
to make it stop!

00:55:26.566 --> 00:55:27.366
The rest of the country

00:55:27.367 --> 00:55:28.565
thought that they invented

00:55:28.566 --> 00:55:30.599
campus demonstrations,

00:55:30.600 --> 00:55:31.333
but Berkeley was

00:55:31.334 --> 00:55:32.965
the mother lode.

00:55:32.966 --> 00:55:33.966
America was entering

00:55:33.967 --> 00:55:36.532
a new phase transformed

00:55:36.533 --> 00:55:37.965
by the Vietnam War

00:55:37.966 --> 00:55:39.765
and a social revolution.

00:55:39.766 --> 00:55:44.332
♪

00:55:44.333 --> 00:55:45.033
The Student Movement

00:55:45.034 --> 00:55:47.899
was in a context of some

00:55:47.900 --> 00:55:51.365
larger reengagement

00:55:51.366 --> 00:55:52.765
after McCarthyism

00:55:52.766 --> 00:55:53.500
and the deadness

00:55:53.501 --> 00:55:55.965
of the \'50\'s.

00:55:55.966 --> 00:55:57.332
Young activists

00:55:57.333 --> 00:55:58.399
wanted to use

00:55:58.400 --> 00:55:59.965
the campus as a forum

00:55:59.966 --> 00:56:00.966
to talk about whatever

00:56:00.967 --> 00:56:03.199
they wanted to talk about.

00:56:03.200 --> 00:56:03.966
And everybody

00:56:03.967 --> 00:56:05.765
from the young Republicans

00:56:05.766 --> 00:56:06.965
to the young Democrats,

00:56:06.966 --> 00:56:08.399
to the socialists,

00:56:08.400 --> 00:56:09.233
to all the civil rights

00:56:09.233 --> 00:56:10.200
organizations wanted

00:56:10.201 --> 00:56:11.399
to set up their tables

00:56:11.400 --> 00:56:11.966
because it was

00:56:11.966 --> 00:56:12.700
a presidential

00:56:12.701 --> 00:56:14.565
election year.

00:56:14.566 --> 00:56:15.033
The fact that

00:56:15.034 --> 00:56:16.365
he didn\'t go to college

00:56:16.366 --> 00:56:17.100
gave him a sense

00:56:17.101 --> 00:56:18.332
that those who,

00:56:18.333 --> 00:56:20.732
who had the benefit

00:56:20.733 --> 00:56:22.032
of being at the great

00:56:22.033 --> 00:56:23.599
University of California,

00:56:23.600 --> 00:56:25.765
that that was such a gift,

00:56:25.766 --> 00:56:28.032
to not spend time in,

00:56:28.033 --> 00:56:29.499
in your classes,

00:56:29.500 --> 00:56:31.099
and taking advantage of it,

00:56:31.100 --> 00:56:32.365
he felt was,

00:56:32.366 --> 00:56:35.232
um, just wrong.

00:56:35.233 --> 00:56:35.866
I mean,

00:56:35.866 --> 00:56:36.366
I remember calling him

00:56:36.366 --> 00:56:37.000
from college

00:56:37.000 --> 00:56:37.700
and telling him

00:56:37.700 --> 00:56:38.266
I was taking

00:56:38.267 --> 00:56:39.532
an art history class,

00:56:39.533 --> 00:56:41.332
and he hung up on me.

00:56:41.333 --> 00:56:42.266
Things came to a head

00:56:42.267 --> 00:56:43.565
when 800 students

00:56:43.566 --> 00:56:45.832
occupied Sproul Hall.

00:56:45.833 --> 00:56:46.400
The students said they

00:56:46.400 --> 00:56:47.100
would not leave

00:56:47.100 --> 00:56:48.033
the building until

00:56:48.034 --> 00:56:49.965
their demands were met.

00:56:49.966 --> 00:56:50.533
I actually put

00:56:50.534 --> 00:56:51.965
my father on the telephone

00:56:51.966 --> 00:56:53.865
with Mario Savio.

00:56:53.866 --> 00:56:54.965
Savio was convinced

00:56:54.966 --> 00:56:56.265
that the card tables there

00:56:56.266 --> 00:56:57.166
were as important

00:56:57.166 --> 00:56:57.966
as anything that was

00:56:57.967 --> 00:57:00.332
happening in Vietnam.

00:57:00.333 --> 00:57:01.899
Mario Savio I thought

00:57:01.900 --> 00:57:03.399
he was a great, great lad,

00:57:03.400 --> 00:57:05.965
but by the same token,

00:57:05.966 --> 00:57:07.732
people want to violate

00:57:07.733 --> 00:57:08.832
the law then they have

00:57:08.833 --> 00:57:10.232
to pay the penalty.

00:57:10.233 --> 00:57:11.332
And I want to be sure

00:57:11.333 --> 00:57:12.832
that law enforcement

00:57:12.833 --> 00:57:14.232
authorities of Alameda County

00:57:14.233 --> 00:57:16.399
have enough support.

00:57:16.400 --> 00:57:16.966
The students

00:57:16.966 --> 00:57:17.733
had taken over

00:57:17.734 --> 00:57:19.565
and the government in effect

00:57:19.566 --> 00:57:20.599
was not in charge.

00:57:20.600 --> 00:57:21.500
By sending in

00:57:21.501 --> 00:57:22.732
the highway patrol,

00:57:22.733 --> 00:57:23.366
he created even

00:57:23.367 --> 00:57:25.765
a more dramatic spectacle

00:57:25.766 --> 00:57:30.265
that was very memorable.

00:57:30.266 --> 00:57:31.200
He was damned if he did

00:57:31.201 --> 00:57:32.965
and damned if he didn\'t.

00:57:32.966 --> 00:57:37.165
♪

00:57:37.166 --> 00:57:38.499
It took them 12 hours

00:57:38.500 --> 00:57:40.965
to clear the building.

00:57:40.966 --> 00:57:41.666
We were completely

00:57:41.666 --> 00:57:42.266
non-violent,

00:57:42.266 --> 00:57:42.966
but the police

00:57:42.966 --> 00:57:43.966
were very violent.

00:57:43.967 --> 00:57:45.032
I myself was beaten

00:57:45.033 --> 00:57:45.900
in the basement

00:57:45.901 --> 00:57:47.099
of Sproul Hall.

00:57:47.100 --> 00:57:48.965
Mario was bounced down

00:57:48.966 --> 00:57:50.499
all the stairs

00:57:50.500 --> 00:57:52.399
on his head.

00:57:52.400 --> 00:57:53.999
I\'ve had to make decisions.

00:57:54.000 --> 00:57:54.766
I haven\'t been able

00:57:54.767 --> 00:57:56.665
to make everybody happy.

00:57:56.666 --> 00:57:57.233
I haven\'t been able

00:57:57.234 --> 00:57:58.565
to make youhappy,

00:57:58.566 --> 00:57:59.932
but I\'ve made decisions

00:57:59.933 --> 00:58:00.600
that have moved

00:58:00.601 --> 00:58:02.065
this state ahead.

00:58:02.066 --> 00:58:06.965
♪

00:58:06.966 --> 00:58:07.966
It was in a time

00:58:07.967 --> 00:58:09.665
of stress and strife.

00:58:09.666 --> 00:58:11.332
I\'d do it again,

00:58:11.333 --> 00:58:12.965
but I really felt

00:58:12.966 --> 00:58:14.032
very badly about

00:58:14.033 --> 00:58:16.765
the whole thing.

00:58:16.766 --> 00:58:17.366
In college,

00:58:17.366 --> 00:58:18.066
I was arrested

00:58:18.067 --> 00:58:20.232
during a political protest.

00:58:20.233 --> 00:58:22.665
Grandpa was really angry.

00:58:22.666 --> 00:58:23.166
He wanted me

00:58:23.167 --> 00:58:24.499
to be engaged,

00:58:24.500 --> 00:58:25.000
but he thought we

00:58:25.000 --> 00:58:25.966
should work for change

00:58:25.967 --> 00:58:28.365
from within the system.

00:58:28.366 --> 00:58:29.399
I think sometimes

00:58:29.400 --> 00:58:29.966
you have to have

00:58:29.967 --> 00:58:30.999
civil disobedience.

00:58:31.000 --> 00:58:31.666
I think you had

00:58:31.667 --> 00:58:32.965
to have it in the South,

00:58:32.966 --> 00:58:34.232
but I don\'t think

00:58:34.233 --> 00:58:34.966
it\'s necessary

00:58:34.966 --> 00:58:35.966
except under the most

00:58:35.967 --> 00:58:38.199
extraordinary circumstances,

00:58:38.200 --> 00:58:38.966
and I don\'t think

00:58:38.967 --> 00:58:40.165
the Free Speech Movement

00:58:40.166 --> 00:58:42.965
was one of those times.

00:58:42.966 --> 00:58:50.966
♪

00:58:52.333 --> 00:58:53.266
Other Californians

00:58:53.266 --> 00:58:54.066
were also making

00:58:54.067 --> 00:58:56.399
their voices heard.

00:58:56.400 --> 00:58:57.100
Big agriculture

00:58:57.101 --> 00:58:58.365
had been taking advantage

00:58:58.366 --> 00:59:00.865
of migrant laborers,

00:59:00.866 --> 00:59:01.899
but the workers

00:59:01.900 --> 00:59:04.899
had started to organize.

00:59:04.900 --> 00:59:06.099
Here in California we had

00:59:06.100 --> 00:59:07.965
the Farm Workers Movement.

00:59:07.966 --> 00:59:08.666
We had very good

00:59:08.667 --> 00:59:09.865
relationships with

00:59:09.866 --> 00:59:10.965
Governor Pat Brown.

00:59:10.966 --> 00:59:11.766
Then we had this

00:59:11.767 --> 00:59:13.999
big strike that broke out.

00:59:14.000 --> 00:59:14.766
California has

00:59:14.766 --> 00:59:15.233
the greatest

00:59:15.234 --> 00:59:16.665
agricultural growth

00:59:16.666 --> 00:59:17.732
of any state in the Union.

00:59:17.733 --> 00:59:18.566
We\'re doing fine,

00:59:18.567 --> 00:59:19.965
and I tell you those crops

00:59:19.966 --> 00:59:20.933
will be harvested,

00:59:20.934 --> 00:59:22.999
and they\'re being harvested.

00:59:23.000 --> 00:59:24.532
There were conflicts that,

00:59:24.533 --> 00:59:25.932
that needed to happen

00:59:25.933 --> 00:59:26.500
for the employers

00:59:26.501 --> 00:59:28.532
to realize that having

00:59:28.533 --> 00:59:29.965
farm workers in the fields

00:59:29.966 --> 00:59:31.832
without toilets was not

00:59:31.833 --> 00:59:32.600
a very humane thing,

00:59:32.600 --> 00:59:33.166
or without

00:59:33.167 --> 00:59:34.565
cold drinking water,

00:59:34.566 --> 00:59:35.333
or without, you know,

00:59:35.334 --> 00:59:37.099
rest periods.

00:59:37.100 --> 00:59:38.033
We started in Delano.

00:59:38.033 --> 00:59:38.866
I think we had

00:59:38.866 --> 00:59:39.766
about seventy strikers

00:59:39.767 --> 00:59:41.599
that started marching.

00:59:41.600 --> 00:59:47.932
♪

00:59:47.933 --> 00:59:48.266
And when we got

00:59:48.266 --> 00:59:48.966
to Sacramento, there were

00:59:48.967 --> 00:59:50.965
10,000 people there.

00:59:50.966 --> 00:59:53.832
♪

00:59:53.833 --> 00:59:59.432
[speaking foreign language]

00:59:59.433 --> 01:00:00.965
But also,

01:00:00.966 --> 01:00:02.932
that in victory,

01:00:02.933 --> 01:00:05.532
there must be humility.

01:00:05.533 --> 01:00:09.665
Viva la huelga!

01:00:09.666 --> 01:00:10.965
Cesar Chavez was

01:00:10.966 --> 01:00:12.899
to end up on Easter Day

01:00:12.900 --> 01:00:13.700
in Sacramento,

01:00:13.700 --> 01:00:14.433
and he wanted me

01:00:14.434 --> 01:00:16.565
to be there to greet him.

01:00:16.566 --> 01:00:18.165
This is the first time

01:00:18.166 --> 01:00:18.866
in the history

01:00:18.867 --> 01:00:20.065
of the United States

01:00:20.066 --> 01:00:20.966
that farm workers

01:00:20.966 --> 01:00:21.966
have walked 300 miles

01:00:21.967 --> 01:00:24.165
to their state capitol,

01:00:24.166 --> 01:00:24.900
but the governor

01:00:24.900 --> 01:00:25.700
of this state

01:00:25.701 --> 01:00:28.165
was not here to greet them.

01:00:28.166 --> 01:00:30.065
Our friend, the governor,

01:00:30.066 --> 01:00:31.432
was not there,

01:00:31.433 --> 01:00:32.765
and we heard that

01:00:32.766 --> 01:00:33.200
he had gotten

01:00:33.200 --> 01:00:33.966
a lot of pressure

01:00:33.967 --> 01:00:35.032
from the growers, uh,

01:00:35.033 --> 01:00:37.165
not to meet us there.

01:00:37.166 --> 01:00:38.765
I had my family down

01:00:38.766 --> 01:00:39.965
at Frank Sinatra\'s

01:00:39.966 --> 01:00:42.399
enclave in Palm Springs,

01:00:42.400 --> 01:00:42.966
and by golly,

01:00:42.966 --> 01:00:43.833
I wasn\'t going to leave

01:00:43.834 --> 01:00:44.965
my family on Easter.

01:00:44.966 --> 01:00:45.533
I was going to go

01:00:45.533 --> 01:00:46.400
to church with \'em,

01:00:46.401 --> 01:00:47.965
and I told Chavez that,

01:00:47.966 --> 01:00:51.965
and they gave me hell.

01:00:51.966 --> 01:00:52.866
So he did avoid it

01:00:52.867 --> 01:00:54.265
to some extent.

01:00:54.266 --> 01:00:55.000
You know, obviously,

01:00:55.000 --> 01:00:55.966
the United Farm Workers

01:00:55.967 --> 01:00:56.999
and Cesar Chavez

01:00:57.000 --> 01:00:57.966
wanted him there

01:00:57.966 --> 01:00:58.766
supporting it,

01:00:58.766 --> 01:00:59.766
but they weren\'t there

01:00:59.766 --> 01:01:00.600
worrying about his election.

01:01:00.600 --> 01:01:01.400
They were worrying

01:01:01.401 --> 01:01:02.899
about their movement

01:01:02.900 --> 01:01:03.999
and trying to, uh,

01:01:04.000 --> 01:01:05.899
put pressure on the growers

01:01:05.900 --> 01:01:06.166
to get their

01:01:06.167 --> 01:01:08.332
union recognition.

01:01:08.333 --> 01:01:09.200
That\'s a clash

01:01:09.201 --> 01:01:10.599
of new forces.

01:01:10.600 --> 01:01:11.965
Chavez created entirely

01:01:11.966 --> 01:01:13.965
new force and movement

01:01:13.966 --> 01:01:16.199
in California politics.

01:01:16.200 --> 01:01:16.833
There was just

01:01:16.833 --> 01:01:17.733
a practical political

01:01:17.733 --> 01:01:18.700
necessity that he had

01:01:18.700 --> 01:01:19.566
to have the support

01:01:19.567 --> 01:01:21.699
of big agriculture.

01:01:21.700 --> 01:01:22.732
The march successfully

01:01:22.733 --> 01:01:23.333
launched the Farm

01:01:23.334 --> 01:01:24.932
Worker\'s Movement,

01:01:24.933 --> 01:01:25.900
and ultimately

01:01:25.900 --> 01:01:26.700
Pat Brown came

01:01:26.701 --> 01:01:28.965
to their side.

01:01:28.966 --> 01:01:29.966
I was surprised

01:01:29.966 --> 01:01:30.766
he used family

01:01:30.767 --> 01:01:32.032
as an excuse to sidestep

01:01:32.033 --> 01:01:33.199
this crucial meeting

01:01:33.200 --> 01:01:35.932
with Chavez.

01:01:35.933 --> 01:01:37.899
You\'ve made friends,

01:01:37.900 --> 01:01:38.965
but by the same token

01:01:38.966 --> 01:01:41.265
you\'ve also made enemies.

01:01:41.266 --> 01:01:42.233
You have to make tough,

01:01:42.234 --> 01:01:45.765
hard decisions almost

01:01:45.766 --> 01:01:46.965
every hour on the hour

01:01:46.966 --> 01:01:48.965
as, as a governor,

01:01:48.966 --> 01:01:50.399
and your friends

01:01:50.400 --> 01:01:51.266
sometimes forget

01:01:51.267 --> 01:01:52.565
about the good things

01:01:52.566 --> 01:01:53.200
that you\'ve done,

01:01:53.200 --> 01:01:53.966
but your enemies

01:01:53.967 --> 01:01:57.999
never seem to forget.

01:01:58.000 --> 01:01:58.600
In a blow

01:01:58.601 --> 01:01:59.832
to the governor\'s agenda,

01:01:59.833 --> 01:02:00.533
a ballot measure

01:02:00.533 --> 01:02:01.500
was introduced

01:02:01.501 --> 01:02:02.699
to strike down

01:02:02.700 --> 01:02:05.865
the Rumford Fair Housing Act.

01:02:05.866 --> 01:02:06.965
White organizations

01:02:06.966 --> 01:02:07.500
led by various

01:02:07.501 --> 01:02:08.965
real estate groups

01:02:08.966 --> 01:02:09.966
collected signatures

01:02:09.967 --> 01:02:11.065
for a referendum,

01:02:11.066 --> 01:02:13.532
which would repeal the law.

01:02:13.533 --> 01:02:15.432
I think it\'s a good law.

01:02:15.433 --> 01:02:16.665
I think its repeal

01:02:16.666 --> 01:02:17.965
would be disastrous.

01:02:17.966 --> 01:02:20.365
I\'m against its repeal.

01:02:20.366 --> 01:02:20.966
Sponsored by

01:02:20.967 --> 01:02:22.265
the real estate industry,

01:02:22.266 --> 01:02:24.732
it was called Prop 14,

01:02:24.733 --> 01:02:25.733
and was meant to roll back

01:02:25.734 --> 01:02:26.965
civil rights progress

01:02:26.966 --> 01:02:28.065
in the name of privacy

01:02:28.066 --> 01:02:31.965
and property rights.

01:02:31.966 --> 01:02:33.499
The privacy was really

01:02:33.500 --> 01:02:34.433
just a guise

01:02:34.434 --> 01:02:35.732
for discrimination

01:02:35.733 --> 01:02:36.233
because, again,

01:02:36.234 --> 01:02:38.932
it allowed wholesale sectors

01:02:38.933 --> 01:02:40.532
of communities to say,

01:02:40.533 --> 01:02:42.032
\"It\'s our privacy.

01:02:42.033 --> 01:02:42.966
We don\'t want

01:02:42.966 --> 01:02:43.900
African-Americans

01:02:43.900 --> 01:02:44.400
living here.

01:02:44.400 --> 01:02:44.966
We don\'t want

01:02:44.967 --> 01:02:46.399
Latinos living here.\"

01:02:46.400 --> 01:02:47.432
My father took

01:02:47.433 --> 01:02:48.965
a very strong lead

01:02:48.966 --> 01:02:51.365
in the \"No on 14\" campaign.

01:02:51.366 --> 01:02:52.665
Meaning he wanted

01:02:52.666 --> 01:02:53.899
to make sure that

01:02:53.900 --> 01:02:55.499
you didn\'t discriminate.

01:02:55.500 --> 01:02:55.966
When people would

01:02:55.966 --> 01:02:56.966
ask me if whether

01:02:56.967 --> 01:02:58.399
I believe in fair housing,

01:02:58.400 --> 01:02:59.333
I would say,

01:02:59.333 --> 01:03:00.233
\"You can\'t have any

01:03:00.233 --> 01:03:01.233
discrimination housing.\"

01:03:01.233 --> 01:03:01.966
And I\'ve seen

01:03:01.966 --> 01:03:02.833
even the union people

01:03:02.834 --> 01:03:04.832
walk away from me.

01:03:04.833 --> 01:03:08.965
♪

01:03:08.966 --> 01:03:10.932
It was a white world.

01:03:10.933 --> 01:03:13.965
The conservative thrust

01:03:13.966 --> 01:03:15.332
was very much

01:03:15.333 --> 01:03:18.332
in hostility to advances

01:03:18.333 --> 01:03:20.965
in the Civil Rights Movement.

01:03:20.966 --> 01:03:21.966
His advisors said,

01:03:21.966 --> 01:03:22.933
\"You are coming up

01:03:22.933 --> 01:03:23.833
for re-election.

01:03:23.833 --> 01:03:24.533
You don\'t need to get

01:03:24.533 --> 01:03:25.433
involved in such

01:03:25.434 --> 01:03:27.232
a hotly contested issue.

01:03:27.233 --> 01:03:28.665
Let the people decide.\"

01:03:28.666 --> 01:03:29.066
And he said,

01:03:29.067 --> 01:03:30.399
\"No, this is wrong.

01:03:30.400 --> 01:03:31.432
I am going to fight

01:03:31.433 --> 01:03:33.565
against this.\"

01:03:33.566 --> 01:03:34.033
The governor

01:03:34.033 --> 01:03:34.933
and other civil rights

01:03:34.934 --> 01:03:35.965
advocates fought hard

01:03:35.966 --> 01:03:38.699
against the measure,

01:03:38.700 --> 01:03:40.065
but Prop 14 ended up

01:03:40.066 --> 01:03:42.765
passing by a huge margin.

01:03:42.766 --> 01:03:43.965
Grandpa and his allies

01:03:43.966 --> 01:03:46.199
lost that battle.

01:03:46.200 --> 01:03:47.399
I fought hard,

01:03:47.400 --> 01:03:48.532
but my Fair Housing Bill

01:03:48.533 --> 01:03:49.732
went down to disastrous

01:03:49.733 --> 01:03:50.533
defeat at the hands

01:03:50.534 --> 01:03:52.199
of the people.

01:03:52.200 --> 01:03:53.100
Before the vote,

01:03:53.101 --> 01:03:54.199
the \"Los Angeles Times\"

01:03:54.200 --> 01:03:55.765
had written an editorial

01:03:55.766 --> 01:03:58.765
supporting the proposition.

01:03:58.766 --> 01:03:59.400
Grandpa wrote a letter

01:03:59.401 --> 01:04:00.432
to its publisher,

01:04:00.433 --> 01:04:01.565
Otis Chandler,

01:04:01.566 --> 01:04:03.032
in protest.

01:04:03.033 --> 01:04:04.332
He wrote,

01:04:04.333 --> 01:04:05.000
\"You freeze into

01:04:05.001 --> 01:04:07.232
the constitution bigotry

01:04:07.233 --> 01:04:08.932
and discrimination.

01:04:08.933 --> 01:04:11.765
You know not what you do.\"

01:04:11.766 --> 01:04:19.766
♪

01:04:23.233 --> 01:04:24.000
One year later,

01:04:24.000 --> 01:04:25.000
that resentment

01:04:25.001 --> 01:04:28.965
violently erupted.

01:04:28.966 --> 01:04:29.566
I raced up

01:04:29.567 --> 01:04:30.865
the Harbor Freeway

01:04:30.866 --> 01:04:31.965
and as I drove,

01:04:31.966 --> 01:04:32.700
I could see these

01:04:32.701 --> 01:04:34.365
great plumes of smoke

01:04:34.366 --> 01:04:35.765
rising in the air.

01:04:35.766 --> 01:04:37.765
As I drove into

01:04:37.766 --> 01:04:38.999
South Central,

01:04:39.000 --> 01:04:39.966
there was the crackle

01:04:39.967 --> 01:04:41.232
of gunfire.

01:04:41.233 --> 01:04:42.965
Young, angry blacks

01:04:42.966 --> 01:04:43.966
throwing fire bombs,

01:04:43.967 --> 01:04:45.565
shooting guns.

01:04:45.566 --> 01:04:46.266
Cops shooting at

01:04:46.267 --> 01:04:49.499
anything that moved.

01:04:49.500 --> 01:04:51.499
Get your hands up I said.

01:04:51.500 --> 01:04:52.200
Drop that purse!

01:04:52.201 --> 01:04:54.165
Get your hands up!

01:04:54.166 --> 01:04:56.665
I certainly do remember it,

01:04:56.666 --> 01:04:57.400
how frightening

01:04:57.401 --> 01:04:58.699
it all was.

01:04:58.700 --> 01:04:59.965
Watching T.V. seeing

01:04:59.966 --> 01:05:00.966
neighborhoods burn,

01:05:00.967 --> 01:05:04.832
seeing people shot.

01:05:04.833 --> 01:05:05.733
Hands up.

01:05:05.733 --> 01:05:06.700
Let\'s go!

01:05:06.700 --> 01:05:07.166
It\'s getting tired

01:05:07.166 --> 01:05:08.000
of being pushed around

01:05:08.000 --> 01:05:08.766
by you white people,

01:05:08.767 --> 01:05:10.965
that\'s all.

01:05:10.966 --> 01:05:11.500
There were

01:05:11.500 --> 01:05:12.266
certainly people

01:05:12.266 --> 01:05:12.966
who were just

01:05:12.967 --> 01:05:14.965
extremely fearful of seeing

01:05:14.966 --> 01:05:16.432
the National Guard

01:05:16.433 --> 01:05:18.332
occupy the neighborhoods.

01:05:18.333 --> 01:05:19.399
I remember older

01:05:19.400 --> 01:05:20.366
African-Americans

01:05:20.367 --> 01:05:22.065
feeling very embarrassed,

01:05:22.066 --> 01:05:22.966
and then there were

01:05:22.967 --> 01:05:24.065
younger folks that

01:05:24.066 --> 01:05:26.732
just felt outrage.

01:05:26.733 --> 01:05:34.032
♪

01:05:34.033 --> 01:05:35.399
It was just a time period

01:05:35.400 --> 01:05:37.032
when as a politician,

01:05:37.033 --> 01:05:37.966
you would hope

01:05:37.966 --> 01:05:38.566
it didn\'t happen

01:05:38.567 --> 01:05:40.032
on your watch.

01:05:40.033 --> 01:05:41.099
The grasp of affairs

01:05:41.100 --> 01:05:42.365
by white officials

01:05:42.366 --> 01:05:44.732
was less than distinguished.

01:05:44.733 --> 01:05:45.066
The governor

01:05:45.066 --> 01:05:45.866
of California

01:05:45.867 --> 01:05:49.599
was in Greece vacationing.

01:05:49.600 --> 01:05:51.965
Grandpa was stunned.

01:05:51.966 --> 01:05:52.866
He caught the next

01:05:52.867 --> 01:05:55.965
flight back home.

01:05:55.966 --> 01:05:56.666
Gentleman,

01:05:56.667 --> 01:05:58.332
I don\'t want to say

01:05:58.333 --> 01:05:59.066
anything at all.

01:05:59.067 --> 01:06:01.032
I haven\'t had anything

01:06:01.033 --> 01:06:02.965
but very fragmentary

01:06:02.966 --> 01:06:05.365
reports on what happened.

01:06:05.366 --> 01:06:05.900
I have been on

01:06:05.901 --> 01:06:07.965
the telephone from Athens

01:06:07.966 --> 01:06:10.099
on three occasions,

01:06:10.100 --> 01:06:11.066
but the connections

01:06:11.067 --> 01:06:12.965
were not too good.

01:06:12.966 --> 01:06:13.966
Do they anticipate

01:06:13.967 --> 01:06:15.699
further rioting tonight?

01:06:15.700 --> 01:06:16.965
Yes, they do.

01:06:16.966 --> 01:06:19.365
Oh, is that right?

01:06:19.366 --> 01:06:20.499
This is all that I want

01:06:20.500 --> 01:06:21.965
to say at the present time.

01:06:21.966 --> 01:06:28.765
Thank you very much.

01:06:28.766 --> 01:06:29.200
Against his

01:06:29.201 --> 01:06:30.699
advisors\' warnings,

01:06:30.700 --> 01:06:31.333
Grandpa went down

01:06:31.334 --> 01:06:33.399
to South Central.

01:06:33.400 --> 01:06:34.432
Like just two

01:06:34.433 --> 01:06:35.499
or three days before this,

01:06:35.500 --> 01:06:36.266
all this happened.

01:06:36.266 --> 01:06:37.066
These people were just

01:06:37.066 --> 01:06:38.033
about starving to death.

01:06:38.033 --> 01:06:38.900
Waiting for the first,

01:06:38.900 --> 01:06:39.666
\'til they got their checks.

01:06:39.666 --> 01:06:40.100
You mean there were

01:06:40.100 --> 01:06:41.033
a lot of people hungry?

01:06:41.033 --> 01:06:41.733
These people been

01:06:41.733 --> 01:06:42.600
hungry all the time.

01:06:42.600 --> 01:06:43.066
Don\'t they get

01:06:43.067 --> 01:06:44.932
the money from welfare

01:06:44.933 --> 01:06:45.566
and the Aid to Needy

01:06:45.566 --> 01:06:46.066
Children Program?

01:06:46.066 --> 01:06:46.766
They need jobs!

01:06:46.766 --> 01:06:47.400
They need jobs!

01:06:47.401 --> 01:06:48.965
That\'s what they need!

01:06:48.966 --> 01:06:49.966
Martin Luther King

01:06:49.966 --> 01:06:50.966
made a special trip

01:06:50.967 --> 01:06:52.399
to Los Angeles.

01:06:52.400 --> 01:06:53.000
My grandfather

01:06:53.001 --> 01:06:54.565
was honored by his visit

01:06:54.566 --> 01:06:55.965
and welcomed his help

01:06:55.966 --> 01:06:57.032
with the crisis.

01:06:57.033 --> 01:06:57.833
You all know

01:06:57.834 --> 01:06:58.899
my philosophy.

01:06:58.900 --> 01:06:59.600
You all know that

01:06:59.601 --> 01:07:01.599
I believe firmly

01:07:01.600 --> 01:07:02.865
in non-violence.

01:07:02.866 --> 01:07:03.566
Sure, we like

01:07:03.567 --> 01:07:04.899
to be non-violent,

01:07:04.900 --> 01:07:05.965
but we up here

01:07:05.966 --> 01:07:07.399
in Los Angeles area

01:07:07.400 --> 01:07:08.033
will not turn

01:07:08.034 --> 01:07:10.032
that other cheek!

01:07:10.033 --> 01:07:11.965
The economic deprivation,

01:07:11.966 --> 01:07:14.499
social isolation,

01:07:14.500 --> 01:07:15.832
inadequate housing,

01:07:15.833 --> 01:07:16.965
and general despair

01:07:16.966 --> 01:07:18.732
of thousands of Negros

01:07:18.733 --> 01:07:19.899
teeming in northern

01:07:19.900 --> 01:07:21.865
and western ghettos

01:07:21.866 --> 01:07:23.099
are the ready seeds

01:07:23.100 --> 01:07:24.165
which give birth

01:07:24.166 --> 01:07:25.832
to tragic expressions

01:07:25.833 --> 01:07:26.965
of violence.

01:07:26.966 --> 01:07:27.733
None of us

01:07:27.734 --> 01:07:29.699
in this great country

01:07:29.700 --> 01:07:30.533
has done enough

01:07:30.534 --> 01:07:33.532
to remove injustice.

01:07:33.533 --> 01:07:35.032
White California

01:07:35.033 --> 01:07:36.865
had no idea

01:07:36.866 --> 01:07:38.965
of the anger in the, uh,

01:07:38.966 --> 01:07:39.733
black community

01:07:39.734 --> 01:07:40.899
in Los Angeles,

01:07:40.900 --> 01:07:41.533
particularly against

01:07:41.534 --> 01:07:42.732
the Los Angeles

01:07:42.733 --> 01:07:44.165
Police Department.

01:07:44.166 --> 01:07:45.432
That\'s because the press

01:07:45.433 --> 01:07:46.965
did not cover it,

01:07:46.966 --> 01:07:47.933
and the politics

01:07:47.934 --> 01:07:48.965
of the time were

01:07:48.966 --> 01:07:52.965
pretty much white politics.

01:07:52.966 --> 01:07:54.199
Pat tried to do

01:07:54.200 --> 01:07:55.100
something about it,

01:07:55.101 --> 01:07:57.599
and he also had to deal

01:07:57.600 --> 01:07:58.932
with the Chief

01:07:58.933 --> 01:08:00.432
of Police Parker,

01:08:00.433 --> 01:08:02.832
who wasn\'t a very nice man.

01:08:02.833 --> 01:08:04.399
Who was a racist.

01:08:04.400 --> 01:08:04.966
We didn\'t ask

01:08:04.967 --> 01:08:06.732
these people to come here,

01:08:06.733 --> 01:08:07.433
and suddenly they want

01:08:07.434 --> 01:08:08.532
our total community

01:08:08.533 --> 01:08:09.699
to adjust itself

01:08:09.700 --> 01:08:11.699
to a small segment

01:08:11.700 --> 01:08:12.600
that has suddenly come in

01:08:12.601 --> 01:08:14.599
and taken over a section.

01:08:14.600 --> 01:08:15.665
Whites begin to crowd

01:08:15.666 --> 01:08:17.265
the gun shops for weapons

01:08:17.266 --> 01:08:19.965
to defend themselves.

01:08:19.966 --> 01:08:21.365
The Watts riots

01:08:21.366 --> 01:08:22.166
really caught

01:08:22.167 --> 01:08:25.199
the attention of the world.

01:08:25.200 --> 01:08:26.166
There was a tendency

01:08:26.167 --> 01:08:27.965
in 1965 primarily

01:08:27.966 --> 01:08:29.499
to blame the rioters,

01:08:29.500 --> 01:08:30.532
and not to be focused

01:08:30.533 --> 01:08:31.965
so much on better

01:08:31.966 --> 01:08:34.032
police performance.

01:08:34.033 --> 01:08:36.065
Pat Brown and I were both,

01:08:36.066 --> 01:08:36.700
you know,

01:08:36.701 --> 01:08:37.999
full of disbelief.

01:08:38.000 --> 01:08:39.099
How could this happen

01:08:39.100 --> 01:08:42.732
in Los Angeles?

01:08:42.733 --> 01:08:43.765
The governor put together

01:08:43.766 --> 01:08:44.400
a commission

01:08:44.400 --> 01:08:45.066
to investigate

01:08:45.067 --> 01:08:47.432
the causes of the rioting,

01:08:47.433 --> 01:08:48.333
but he knew

01:08:48.334 --> 01:08:49.599
that racial inequality

01:08:49.600 --> 01:08:50.999
wasn\'t going to be solved

01:08:51.000 --> 01:08:53.432
by a blue ribbon panel.

01:08:53.433 --> 01:08:54.000
The events

01:08:54.001 --> 01:08:55.599
of the past week

01:08:55.600 --> 01:08:56.533
have been damaging

01:08:56.534 --> 01:08:57.932
to all of us,

01:08:57.933 --> 01:08:58.866
but the tragedy

01:08:58.867 --> 01:09:00.765
will be far greater

01:09:00.766 --> 01:09:01.965
if we allow anger

01:09:01.966 --> 01:09:03.965
and prejudice to overwhelm

01:09:03.966 --> 01:09:05.832
reason and hope.

01:09:05.833 --> 01:09:09.399
♪

01:09:09.400 --> 01:09:09.966
You wanted law

01:09:09.967 --> 01:09:11.165
and order in this town,

01:09:11.166 --> 01:09:12.166
you\'ve got it.

01:09:12.166 --> 01:09:12.966
I\'ll shoot the first man

01:09:12.967 --> 01:09:14.432
who starts for those steps.

01:09:14.433 --> 01:09:17.065
Come on!

01:09:17.066 --> 01:09:17.966
In California,

01:09:17.967 --> 01:09:19.032
actor Ronald Reagan

01:09:19.033 --> 01:09:19.966
and Mrs. Reagan

01:09:19.967 --> 01:09:21.232
arrived to cast their votes

01:09:21.233 --> 01:09:21.966
in the state\'s

01:09:21.967 --> 01:09:23.232
primary election.

01:09:23.233 --> 01:09:24.100
He\'s the Republican

01:09:24.101 --> 01:09:25.765
nominee for governor.

01:09:25.766 --> 01:09:26.400
It\'s his first

01:09:26.401 --> 01:09:29.932
political contest.

01:09:29.933 --> 01:09:30.933
I will be a candidate

01:09:30.934 --> 01:09:32.032
for re-election.

01:09:32.033 --> 01:09:33.165
I will travel

01:09:33.166 --> 01:09:34.899
from the Oregon border

01:09:34.900 --> 01:09:36.865
to the Mexican line,

01:09:36.866 --> 01:09:37.433
from the Sierra

01:09:37.434 --> 01:09:38.699
to the Pacific,

01:09:38.700 --> 01:09:39.999
for the principles

01:09:40.000 --> 01:09:40.700
that have made

01:09:40.701 --> 01:09:42.332
California first

01:09:42.333 --> 01:09:43.965
in America.

01:09:43.966 --> 01:09:45.665
In 1966,

01:09:45.666 --> 01:09:46.699
my grandfather kicked off

01:09:46.700 --> 01:09:47.965
his last campaign

01:09:47.966 --> 01:09:50.699
feeling confident.

01:09:50.700 --> 01:09:51.700
At the time,

01:09:51.701 --> 01:09:52.932
few people imagined

01:09:52.933 --> 01:09:53.833
Reagan would become

01:09:53.833 --> 01:09:54.333
President of

01:09:54.334 --> 01:09:55.932
the United States,

01:09:55.933 --> 01:09:56.965
and an enduring

01:09:56.966 --> 01:09:59.365
political icon.

01:09:59.366 --> 01:10:00.865
Pat Brown kind of

01:10:00.866 --> 01:10:02.499
laughed at Reagan.

01:10:02.500 --> 01:10:03.732
And here\'s exciting

01:10:03.733 --> 01:10:04.965
new Boraxo waterless

01:10:04.966 --> 01:10:05.966
hand cleaner.

01:10:05.966 --> 01:10:06.666
Watch.

01:10:06.666 --> 01:10:07.066
One of the things

01:10:07.066 --> 01:10:07.966
that happened to Pat Brown

01:10:07.966 --> 01:10:08.433
when he ran against

01:10:08.433 --> 01:10:09.233
Ronald Reagan is that

01:10:09.233 --> 01:10:10.233
I think he personally

01:10:10.234 --> 01:10:11.665
underestimated him,

01:10:11.666 --> 01:10:12.433
and his staff

01:10:12.434 --> 01:10:14.265
grosslyunderestimated him.

01:10:14.266 --> 01:10:14.933
They thought he was

01:10:14.933 --> 01:10:15.400
just an actor

01:10:15.401 --> 01:10:16.965
from Hollywood.

01:10:16.966 --> 01:10:18.365
Now you vote for me,

01:10:18.366 --> 01:10:20.365
if you believe in yourself.

01:10:20.366 --> 01:10:20.966
If you believe

01:10:20.967 --> 01:10:22.165
in your right to control

01:10:22.166 --> 01:10:23.832
your own destiny,

01:10:23.833 --> 01:10:25.065
to run your own life.

01:10:25.066 --> 01:10:26.066
Yes, and to have something

01:10:26.066 --> 01:10:26.966
to say about how

01:10:26.966 --> 01:10:27.733
you spend the most

01:10:27.734 --> 01:10:29.899
of the money that you earn.

01:10:29.900 --> 01:10:30.833
Reagan had started

01:10:30.834 --> 01:10:32.699
as a liberal democrat.

01:10:32.700 --> 01:10:33.965
Like my grandfather,

01:10:33.966 --> 01:10:35.565
after he changed parties

01:10:35.566 --> 01:10:36.965
he possessed the zeal

01:10:36.966 --> 01:10:38.599
of a convert.

01:10:38.600 --> 01:10:39.166
Ronald Reagan was

01:10:39.167 --> 01:10:41.532
a perfect example

01:10:41.533 --> 01:10:42.865
of the new kind

01:10:42.866 --> 01:10:43.666
of politics which

01:10:43.667 --> 01:10:45.332
would become much more

01:10:45.333 --> 01:10:46.365
conservative,

01:10:46.366 --> 01:10:47.665
and much more

01:10:47.666 --> 01:10:49.765
suspicious of government.

01:10:49.766 --> 01:10:51.432
Reagan talked about

01:10:51.433 --> 01:10:52.865
no government at all.

01:10:52.866 --> 01:10:53.899
He was like an atheist

01:10:53.900 --> 01:10:57.832
being elected pope.

01:10:57.833 --> 01:10:58.766
Reagan and I are going

01:10:58.767 --> 01:11:00.165
up to the San Joaquin Valley.

01:11:00.166 --> 01:11:01.066
When Reagan,

01:11:01.067 --> 01:11:02.332
he had brought up

01:11:02.333 --> 01:11:03.965
campus unrest

01:11:03.966 --> 01:11:04.733
and made a very

01:11:04.733 --> 01:11:05.566
strong statement

01:11:05.566 --> 01:11:06.533
about what he\'s gonna do

01:11:06.534 --> 01:11:08.165
something about that.

01:11:08.166 --> 01:11:09.265
And I said,

01:11:09.266 --> 01:11:09.833
\"What are you

01:11:09.833 --> 01:11:10.200
talking about

01:11:10.200 --> 01:11:11.066
campus unrest for?\"

01:11:11.066 --> 01:11:11.700
I said,

01:11:11.700 --> 01:11:12.600
\"It isn\'t even a bleep

01:11:12.601 --> 01:11:14.965
in our polling data.\"

01:11:14.966 --> 01:11:15.733
He looked at me

01:11:15.734 --> 01:11:16.765
and he says,

01:11:16.766 --> 01:11:17.533
\"It will be before

01:11:17.534 --> 01:11:19.032
I get through.\"

01:11:19.033 --> 01:11:19.933
They brought shame

01:11:19.934 --> 01:11:20.965
on a great university.

01:11:20.966 --> 01:11:21.933
A university of which

01:11:21.933 --> 01:11:22.833
you and I have a right

01:11:22.834 --> 01:11:24.099
to be very proud,

01:11:24.100 --> 01:11:25.232
and which for many years

01:11:25.233 --> 01:11:26.932
we have been very proud.

01:11:26.933 --> 01:11:27.833
He kept pounding it,

01:11:27.833 --> 01:11:28.700
and pounding it,

01:11:28.700 --> 01:11:29.433
and it kept going

01:11:29.434 --> 01:11:33.065
eh, eh, eh, eh, eh.

01:11:33.066 --> 01:11:33.700
And it became

01:11:33.701 --> 01:11:35.265
a major issue.

01:11:35.266 --> 01:11:36.166
Pat was in power

01:11:36.166 --> 01:11:37.066
and had to do something,

01:11:37.067 --> 01:11:38.232
and Reagan was not

01:11:38.233 --> 01:11:38.966
and he could say

01:11:38.967 --> 01:11:40.565
any damn thing he wanted.

01:11:40.566 --> 01:11:41.033
The former

01:11:41.033 --> 01:11:41.733
attorney general

01:11:41.733 --> 01:11:42.200
of this state,

01:11:42.201 --> 01:11:43.532
and now its governor,

01:11:43.533 --> 01:11:45.332
and professional politician,

01:11:45.333 --> 01:11:46.066
has been completely

01:11:46.066 --> 01:11:46.933
ineffective,

01:11:46.933 --> 01:11:47.400
in reducing

01:11:47.401 --> 01:11:48.965
the mounting crime rate.

01:11:48.966 --> 01:11:49.700
So ineffective,

01:11:49.701 --> 01:11:50.965
that now he tells us

01:11:50.966 --> 01:11:51.966
crime isn\'t an issue

01:11:51.967 --> 01:11:53.365
in this campaign.

01:11:53.366 --> 01:11:54.965
Well, it is.

01:11:54.966 --> 01:11:55.866
The effect

01:11:55.867 --> 01:11:56.965
of the riots has been

01:11:56.966 --> 01:11:58.965
to greatly enhance

01:11:58.966 --> 01:12:00.699
demand for law and order,

01:12:00.700 --> 01:12:01.899
a movement away from

01:12:01.900 --> 01:12:04.332
civil rights legislation.

01:12:04.333 --> 01:12:05.499
Reagan is reducing

01:12:05.500 --> 01:12:06.699
to the pristine vulgarity

01:12:06.700 --> 01:12:07.600
of the slogan,

01:12:07.600 --> 01:12:08.566
only those issues

01:12:08.567 --> 01:12:09.765
directly related

01:12:09.766 --> 01:12:10.700
to the local ambitions

01:12:10.701 --> 01:12:13.965
of white Californians.

01:12:13.966 --> 01:12:15.965
I feel that this

01:12:15.966 --> 01:12:17.165
racial situation

01:12:17.166 --> 01:12:18.665
is probably the number one

01:12:18.666 --> 01:12:19.932
domestic problem.

01:12:19.933 --> 01:12:20.666
I think the thing

01:12:20.666 --> 01:12:21.600
that we have to do

01:12:21.601 --> 01:12:23.332
is to try to bring about

01:12:23.333 --> 01:12:24.965
a greater understanding.

01:12:24.966 --> 01:12:25.566
He was put

01:12:25.567 --> 01:12:26.765
on the defensive.

01:12:26.766 --> 01:12:27.100
\"Why do we have

01:12:27.100 --> 01:12:27.966
the Watts riots?

01:12:27.966 --> 01:12:28.733
Well,

01:12:28.733 --> 01:12:29.700
that\'s Pat Brown\'s fault.\"

01:12:29.700 --> 01:12:30.400
\"Why is welfare

01:12:30.400 --> 01:12:31.266
out of control?\"

01:12:31.267 --> 01:12:32.999
All that was packaged

01:12:33.000 --> 01:12:34.899
and crystallized

01:12:34.900 --> 01:12:35.766
as the problem

01:12:35.767 --> 01:12:36.965
of a Democratic,

01:12:36.966 --> 01:12:38.532
liberal governor.

01:12:38.533 --> 01:12:39.765
Grandpa had continued

01:12:39.766 --> 01:12:40.500
to fight against

01:12:40.501 --> 01:12:41.965
discrimination.

01:12:41.966 --> 01:12:43.599
Prop 14 had finally

01:12:43.600 --> 01:12:44.832
been struck down by

01:12:44.833 --> 01:12:47.965
the California Supreme Court,

01:12:47.966 --> 01:12:48.966
but Reagan still

01:12:48.967 --> 01:12:50.432
argued for the rollback

01:12:50.433 --> 01:12:51.965
of fair housing rights,

01:12:51.966 --> 01:12:52.999
and most voters

01:12:53.000 --> 01:12:54.732
were on his side.

01:12:54.733 --> 01:12:55.166
I will call

01:12:55.167 --> 01:12:56.565
for repeal of those

01:12:56.566 --> 01:12:58.065
portions of the Rumford Act

01:12:58.066 --> 01:12:59.232
which violate personal

01:12:59.233 --> 01:13:00.965
property rights.

01:13:00.966 --> 01:13:02.999
I\'m sure it hurt

01:13:03.000 --> 01:13:04.999
Pat with some voters,

01:13:05.000 --> 01:13:07.199
but you understand sometimes

01:13:07.200 --> 01:13:08.100
you do it because it\'s

01:13:08.101 --> 01:13:09.499
the right thing to do

01:13:09.500 --> 01:13:10.565
and there\'s consequences

01:13:10.566 --> 01:13:18.566
that will be paid.

01:13:40.733 --> 01:13:41.266
My opponent,

01:13:41.267 --> 01:13:43.165
I repeat, has never spent

01:13:43.166 --> 01:13:44.166
a single day

01:13:44.167 --> 01:13:45.965
in public office.

01:13:45.966 --> 01:13:46.966
We cannot judge

01:13:46.967 --> 01:13:48.365
my opponent by his record

01:13:48.366 --> 01:13:50.032
of action in public office,

01:13:50.033 --> 01:13:52.932
there is no such record.

01:13:52.933 --> 01:13:53.566
The press had been

01:13:53.566 --> 01:13:54.533
going against him

01:13:54.534 --> 01:13:57.065
for a period of time.

01:13:57.066 --> 01:13:58.000
It was hard.

01:13:58.001 --> 01:14:01.399
It was very hard.

01:14:01.400 --> 01:14:02.765
We\'d taken polls

01:14:02.766 --> 01:14:03.400
and we knew that

01:14:03.401 --> 01:14:05.965
we were behind.

01:14:05.966 --> 01:14:06.999
I remember going with, uh,

01:14:07.000 --> 01:14:07.866
Governor Brown

01:14:07.867 --> 01:14:09.532
to Santa Maria, California.

01:14:09.533 --> 01:14:09.966
He rode in

01:14:09.967 --> 01:14:11.232
the Fourth of July parade,

01:14:11.233 --> 01:14:11.966
and we went down

01:14:11.966 --> 01:14:12.566
the entire length

01:14:12.566 --> 01:14:13.266
of Main Street,

01:14:13.267 --> 01:14:15.365
and not one person waved

01:14:15.366 --> 01:14:16.200
or applauded

01:14:16.201 --> 01:14:17.965
to the sitting governor.

01:14:17.966 --> 01:14:18.966
And at the end,

01:14:18.966 --> 01:14:19.933
he laughed and said,

01:14:19.933 --> 01:14:20.666
\"I don\'t think I\'m going

01:14:20.666 --> 01:14:21.100
to do too well

01:14:21.101 --> 01:14:22.899
in Santa Maria.\"

01:14:22.900 --> 01:14:26.065
♪

01:14:26.066 --> 01:14:27.099
After the balloting,

01:14:27.100 --> 01:14:28.232
Ronald Reagan shows

01:14:28.233 --> 01:14:29.066
a million vote

01:14:29.067 --> 01:14:30.665
victory margin,

01:14:30.666 --> 01:14:31.166
and his most

01:14:31.166 --> 01:14:32.066
ardent supporters

01:14:32.067 --> 01:14:33.599
are already unfurling

01:14:33.600 --> 01:14:35.665
\"Reagan for President\" banners,

01:14:35.666 --> 01:14:36.965
as the favorite candidate

01:14:36.966 --> 01:14:40.899
of the GOP conservatives.

01:14:40.900 --> 01:14:47.932
♪

01:14:47.933 --> 01:14:48.965
Gentlemen and ladies,

01:14:48.966 --> 01:14:50.965
I just want to tell you

01:14:50.966 --> 01:14:51.999
that it\'s a beautiful,

01:14:52.000 --> 01:14:53.532
beautiful day after

01:14:53.533 --> 01:14:57.099
the storm of last night,

01:14:57.100 --> 01:14:59.665
but the sunshine always

01:14:59.666 --> 01:15:01.965
follows the clearing

01:15:01.966 --> 01:15:03.832
of the clouds.

01:15:03.833 --> 01:15:07.165
♪

01:15:07.166 --> 01:15:07.966
He certainly wasn\'t

01:15:07.967 --> 01:15:09.765
ready to retire.

01:15:09.766 --> 01:15:12.499
The commitment to building

01:15:12.500 --> 01:15:13.400
and investing

01:15:13.400 --> 01:15:14.266
for California,

01:15:14.267 --> 01:15:16.032
that did not leave him

01:15:16.033 --> 01:15:18.365
when he left office.

01:15:18.366 --> 01:15:20.965
He loved to be with people

01:15:20.966 --> 01:15:22.099
and he wanted

01:15:22.100 --> 01:15:25.665
to solve problems.

01:15:25.666 --> 01:15:26.233
He certainly wasn\'t

01:15:26.234 --> 01:15:27.732
too happy to,

01:15:27.733 --> 01:15:29.265
because he\'d been

01:15:29.266 --> 01:15:30.965
in campaigns

01:15:30.966 --> 01:15:31.966
in political office

01:15:31.967 --> 01:15:34.032
for 23 years.

01:15:34.033 --> 01:15:36.065
My father did not

01:15:36.066 --> 01:15:36.966
think Reagan knew

01:15:36.967 --> 01:15:38.165
very much about government,

01:15:38.166 --> 01:15:39.166
and thought he was,

01:15:39.167 --> 01:15:40.665
disdainful of government,

01:15:40.666 --> 01:15:41.965
and he felt that Reagan

01:15:41.966 --> 01:15:43.499
was denigrating what

01:15:43.500 --> 01:15:44.832
to him was not only

01:15:44.833 --> 01:15:45.899
his life\'s work,

01:15:45.900 --> 01:15:47.032
but what he felt to be

01:15:47.033 --> 01:15:49.265
profoundly important.

01:15:49.266 --> 01:15:57.266
♪

01:16:07.900 --> 01:16:11.332
It\'s Christmas Eve, 1966,

01:16:11.333 --> 01:16:12.832
and my grandfather

01:16:12.833 --> 01:16:16.265
is a lame duck governor.

01:16:16.266 --> 01:16:16.966
And he was about

01:16:16.966 --> 01:16:17.766
to leave the old

01:16:17.766 --> 01:16:18.666
Governor\'s Mansion

01:16:18.667 --> 01:16:19.965
over on H Street,

01:16:19.966 --> 01:16:20.766
and Bob Crown,

01:16:20.766 --> 01:16:21.566
who was a fellow

01:16:21.566 --> 01:16:22.566
assemblyman said,

01:16:22.566 --> 01:16:23.200
\"Let\'s drop in

01:16:23.201 --> 01:16:24.865
and see the old man.\"

01:16:24.866 --> 01:16:25.433
That\'s what you called

01:16:25.434 --> 01:16:27.099
the governor.

01:16:27.100 --> 01:16:27.866
And I said,

01:16:27.866 --> 01:16:28.833
\"Well, we can\'t do that.

01:16:28.834 --> 01:16:29.932
We haven\'t any appointment

01:16:29.933 --> 01:16:30.366
or anything.\"

01:16:30.366 --> 01:16:31.166
\"No\", he said.

01:16:31.167 --> 01:16:32.199
So we walked up

01:16:32.200 --> 01:16:34.432
and just rang the doorbell,

01:16:34.433 --> 01:16:36.499
and this uniformed

01:16:36.500 --> 01:16:38.099
sheriff answered.

01:16:38.100 --> 01:16:39.199
We heard Pat\'s voice.

01:16:39.200 --> 01:16:41.565
\"Hey, fellas, come on in!\"

01:16:41.566 --> 01:16:42.533
And here was Pat

01:16:42.534 --> 01:16:44.965
in his shirt sleeves,

01:16:44.966 --> 01:16:45.700
and it turned out

01:16:45.701 --> 01:16:46.999
what he was doing

01:16:47.000 --> 01:16:47.933
was going over

01:16:47.934 --> 01:16:49.865
the death penalty cases

01:16:49.866 --> 01:16:51.099
one more time to see

01:16:51.100 --> 01:16:52.599
if there wasn\'t some basis

01:16:52.600 --> 01:16:54.432
to commute a sentence.

01:16:54.433 --> 01:16:55.100
I\'d like to have \'em

01:16:55.100 --> 01:16:56.000
say that, uh,

01:16:56.000 --> 01:16:57.000
he was a compassionate

01:16:57.001 --> 01:16:58.732
governor.

01:16:58.733 --> 01:16:59.266
I\'d rather have them

01:16:59.267 --> 01:17:01.032
say that than anything.

01:17:01.033 --> 01:17:04.432
♪

01:17:04.433 --> 01:17:05.100
The first thing

01:17:05.101 --> 01:17:08.565
he would always say is,

01:17:08.566 --> 01:17:09.066
\"What\'s the right

01:17:09.067 --> 01:17:10.832
thing to do?

01:17:10.833 --> 01:17:11.600
You can figure out

01:17:11.601 --> 01:17:12.765
how you\'re gonna wrap

01:17:12.766 --> 01:17:14.932
it up or how you\'re gonna,

01:17:14.933 --> 01:17:16.899
advance it or how you can

01:17:16.900 --> 01:17:17.932
get support.\"

01:17:17.933 --> 01:17:18.366
He said,

01:17:18.366 --> 01:17:19.100
\"Just start with what

01:17:19.101 --> 01:17:20.965
feels right and what

01:17:20.966 --> 01:17:27.265
your gut tells you.\"

01:17:27.266 --> 01:17:29.965
Ha-ha-ha!

01:17:29.966 --> 01:17:32.399
This is an adventure,

01:17:32.400 --> 01:17:33.532
I\'m sure my father

01:17:33.533 --> 01:17:34.000
would have loved

01:17:34.001 --> 01:17:35.965
to have been here.

01:17:35.966 --> 01:17:39.265
♪

01:17:39.266 --> 01:17:40.599
I never got a chance

01:17:40.600 --> 01:17:41.699
to ask Grandpa

01:17:41.700 --> 01:17:42.566
what he thought

01:17:42.567 --> 01:17:45.065
about Mom\'s tough campaign.

01:17:45.066 --> 01:17:49.332
♪

01:17:49.333 --> 01:17:50.100
Every time I\'d visit

01:17:50.101 --> 01:17:51.565
him in the last years

01:17:51.566 --> 01:17:52.400
of his life,

01:17:52.400 --> 01:17:53.166
he slept most

01:17:53.167 --> 01:17:54.732
of the time.

01:17:54.733 --> 01:17:55.566
His eyes would open

01:17:55.566 --> 01:17:56.233
and he knew that

01:17:56.233 --> 01:17:56.966
I was there,

01:17:56.966 --> 01:17:57.966
and he\'d say,

01:17:57.966 --> 01:17:58.500
\"Are you running

01:17:58.501 --> 01:17:59.965
for something?\"

01:17:59.966 --> 01:18:00.666
I said,

01:18:00.666 --> 01:18:01.266
\"Well as a matter

01:18:01.267 --> 01:18:03.032
of fact, Dad, I am.

01:18:03.033 --> 01:18:04.332
I\'m running for governor.\"

01:18:04.333 --> 01:18:06.932
And he, uh,

01:18:06.933 --> 01:18:08.565
would still ask...

01:18:08.566 --> 01:18:08.966
You know what,

01:18:08.966 --> 01:18:09.766
I can\'t tell this story.

01:18:09.767 --> 01:18:11.899
I\'m not going to tell it.

01:18:11.900 --> 01:18:12.866
I\'m not going to tell it.

01:18:12.866 --> 01:18:13.366
No, no, no.

01:18:13.366 --> 01:18:13.866
Please.

01:18:13.866 --> 01:18:14.533
Well, let me...

01:18:14.534 --> 01:18:15.699
No, not now.

01:18:15.700 --> 01:18:16.233
It\'s too...

01:18:16.233 --> 01:18:16.766
Let me.

01:18:16.766 --> 01:18:17.433
Okay.

01:18:17.433 --> 01:18:18.066
It doesn\'t work.

01:18:18.067 --> 01:18:19.565
Okay.

01:18:19.566 --> 01:18:24.899
♪

01:18:24.900 --> 01:18:25.965
And Mom said,

01:18:25.966 --> 01:18:26.933
\"Well, Dad,

01:18:26.934 --> 01:18:29.432
the election\'s over.

01:18:29.433 --> 01:18:31.499
I lost.\"

01:18:31.500 --> 01:18:31.966
And he looked up

01:18:31.966 --> 01:18:32.866
at her with

01:18:32.866 --> 01:18:33.566
a kind of clarity

01:18:33.566 --> 01:18:34.566
in his eyes that she

01:18:34.567 --> 01:18:37.032
hadn\'t seen for a long time

01:18:37.033 --> 01:18:38.432
and he said,

01:18:38.433 --> 01:18:40.765
\"What were the numbers?\"

01:18:40.766 --> 01:18:41.965
And she told him,

01:18:41.966 --> 01:18:43.265
and he said,

01:18:43.266 --> 01:18:45.965
\"That\'s a loss.\"

01:18:45.966 --> 01:18:47.365
And he never again asked

01:18:47.366 --> 01:18:51.732
her about politics.

01:18:51.733 --> 01:18:52.700
And that I will well

01:18:52.700 --> 01:18:53.533
and faithfully...

01:18:53.533 --> 01:18:54.166
And that I will well

01:18:54.166 --> 01:18:55.066
and faithfully...

01:18:55.067 --> 01:18:56.199
Discharge the duties...

01:18:56.200 --> 01:18:57.899
Discharge the duties...

01:18:57.900 --> 01:18:58.965
Upon which I am

01:18:58.966 --> 01:18:59.933
about to enter.

01:18:59.933 --> 01:19:00.833
Upon which I am

01:19:00.834 --> 01:19:01.965
about to enter.

01:19:01.966 --> 01:19:02.966
Congratulations.

01:19:02.966 --> 01:19:03.900
Thank you very much.

01:19:03.901 --> 01:19:04.965
Thank you.

01:19:04.966 --> 01:19:08.965
Thank you.

01:19:08.966 --> 01:19:09.766
For me, this day

01:19:09.767 --> 01:19:11.432
is also special

01:19:11.433 --> 01:19:12.699
because I get to follow

01:19:12.700 --> 01:19:14.365
in my father\'s footsteps

01:19:14.366 --> 01:19:15.732
once again.

01:19:15.733 --> 01:19:20.965
♪

01:19:20.966 --> 01:19:22.499
And 36 years after

01:19:22.500 --> 01:19:23.832
my first inauguration

01:19:23.833 --> 01:19:24.865
as governor,

01:19:24.866 --> 01:19:26.965
even follow in my own.

01:19:26.966 --> 01:19:34.966
♪

01:19:36.366 --> 01:19:37.333
Grandpa isn\'t around

01:19:37.334 --> 01:19:39.999
to call Jerry every day,

01:19:40.000 --> 01:19:40.966
but I\'m sure he would

01:19:40.966 --> 01:19:41.966
be proud to see

01:19:41.967 --> 01:19:43.599
his son stepping up

01:19:43.600 --> 01:19:44.965
to tackle California\'s

01:19:44.966 --> 01:19:48.199
massive problems.

01:19:48.200 --> 01:19:49.832
My father was a very

01:19:49.833 --> 01:19:51.365
optimistic person

01:19:51.366 --> 01:19:52.266
when it comes

01:19:52.267 --> 01:19:54.165
to the ability of people,

01:19:54.166 --> 01:19:56.099
through public institutions,

01:19:56.100 --> 01:19:57.932
to create good.

01:19:57.933 --> 01:19:59.565
He was a fair person.

01:19:59.566 --> 01:20:00.566
He didn\'t have any

01:20:00.567 --> 01:20:03.432
sense of bias or prejudice.

01:20:03.433 --> 01:20:04.665
He had championed

01:20:04.666 --> 01:20:07.365
civil rights.

01:20:07.366 --> 01:20:08.932
Without any question

01:20:08.933 --> 01:20:10.399
Pat Brown was

01:20:10.400 --> 01:20:12.565
the last great

01:20:12.566 --> 01:20:16.765
American political builder.

01:20:16.766 --> 01:20:18.765
He built 1,000 miles

01:20:18.766 --> 01:20:20.032
of freeway.

01:20:20.033 --> 01:20:21.932
I think I added 60 miles

01:20:21.933 --> 01:20:23.499
to the freeway system.

01:20:23.500 --> 01:20:25.165
We all pale in comparison

01:20:25.166 --> 01:20:26.166
to what he contributed

01:20:26.167 --> 01:20:29.965
to the state of California.

01:20:29.966 --> 01:20:31.032
Governor Brown

01:20:31.033 --> 01:20:32.065
made possible

01:20:32.066 --> 01:20:33.232
the State Water Plan

01:20:33.233 --> 01:20:34.865
which up to that time

01:20:34.866 --> 01:20:35.965
was the most ambitious

01:20:35.966 --> 01:20:36.966
public works project

01:20:36.967 --> 01:20:38.265
of its kind, not just

01:20:38.266 --> 01:20:39.965
in California history,

01:20:39.966 --> 01:20:41.165
not just in American history,

01:20:41.166 --> 01:20:43.565
but in world history.

01:20:43.566 --> 01:20:45.599
And every mile

01:20:45.600 --> 01:20:47.332
of that water project,

01:20:47.333 --> 01:20:48.365
every mile of

01:20:48.366 --> 01:20:49.832
the freeway system,

01:20:49.833 --> 01:20:52.732
every university campus,

01:20:52.733 --> 01:20:55.332
it was done deal by deal,

01:20:55.333 --> 01:20:56.899
deal by deal,

01:20:56.900 --> 01:20:57.932
and that\'s how

01:20:57.933 --> 01:20:58.833
they built, uh,

01:20:58.834 --> 01:21:01.232
a great state.

01:21:01.233 --> 01:21:02.599
That was really viewed

01:21:02.600 --> 01:21:04.565
as the golden era.

01:21:04.566 --> 01:21:05.066
So, it\'s something

01:21:05.066 --> 01:21:06.033
that we look back

01:21:06.034 --> 01:21:07.565
on nostalgically,

01:21:07.566 --> 01:21:08.932
but I, I really, uh,

01:21:08.933 --> 01:21:09.999
am hopeful that

01:21:10.000 --> 01:21:12.965
we could get back there.

01:21:12.966 --> 01:21:14.899
By the year 2050,

01:21:14.900 --> 01:21:15.766
we\'re gonna be

01:21:15.767 --> 01:21:17.199
sixty million people.

01:21:17.200 --> 01:21:18.232
People like it or not,

01:21:18.233 --> 01:21:19.565
that\'s what it\'s gonna be.

01:21:19.566 --> 01:21:20.333
So, we better get

01:21:20.334 --> 01:21:21.765
our act together

01:21:21.766 --> 01:21:22.965
and continue with

01:21:22.966 --> 01:21:24.665
the vision of Pat Brown,

01:21:24.666 --> 01:21:25.333
and continue building

01:21:25.334 --> 01:21:27.965
California for the future.

01:21:27.966 --> 01:21:28.600
In the wake

01:21:28.601 --> 01:21:30.032
of Pat\'s career

01:21:30.033 --> 01:21:31.199
government became unpopular.

01:21:31.200 --> 01:21:32.000
People started to say

01:21:32.000 --> 01:21:33.000
that government was always

01:21:33.001 --> 01:21:34.965
a waste of money.

01:21:34.966 --> 01:21:35.566
Pat would never

01:21:35.567 --> 01:21:37.532
have believed that.

01:21:37.533 --> 01:21:38.699
You cannot protect

01:21:38.700 --> 01:21:39.832
the environment if you

01:21:39.833 --> 01:21:41.399
don\'t have government.

01:21:41.400 --> 01:21:42.965
You certainly can\'t

01:21:42.966 --> 01:21:44.332
have public safety

01:21:44.333 --> 01:21:46.599
if you don\'t have government.

01:21:46.600 --> 01:21:47.999
Without any apology

01:21:48.000 --> 01:21:49.000
for government,

01:21:49.000 --> 01:21:49.966
he could be

01:21:49.967 --> 01:21:52.765
its strongest advocate.

01:21:52.766 --> 01:21:53.899
I think he would try

01:21:53.900 --> 01:21:55.332
to combat the notion

01:21:55.333 --> 01:21:56.499
that somehow government

01:21:56.500 --> 01:21:57.599
is the enemy.

01:21:57.600 --> 01:21:58.066
He would say,

01:21:58.067 --> 01:21:59.965
\"Make it your friend.\"

01:21:59.966 --> 01:22:00.733
Government can\'t,

01:22:00.733 --> 01:22:01.733
of course,

01:22:01.734 --> 01:22:02.965
lift up everybody.

01:22:02.966 --> 01:22:04.565
We can\'t get rid of death,

01:22:04.566 --> 01:22:05.965
or sickness, or worry,

01:22:05.966 --> 01:22:07.965
or hatred, or bigotry,

01:22:07.966 --> 01:22:08.500
or any of these

01:22:08.501 --> 01:22:09.965
things that have existed,

01:22:09.966 --> 01:22:10.999
but we can provide

01:22:11.000 --> 01:22:12.599
people with the opportunity.

01:22:12.600 --> 01:22:13.433
We can equalize

01:22:13.434 --> 01:22:17.499
the opportunity.

01:22:17.500 --> 01:22:18.699
I understand now

01:22:18.700 --> 01:22:19.832
that most of all

01:22:19.833 --> 01:22:21.199
my grandfather wanted

01:22:21.200 --> 01:22:22.599
and expected us to

01:22:22.600 --> 01:22:25.899
take care of one another.

01:22:25.900 --> 01:22:26.833
I often think back

01:22:26.834 --> 01:22:27.965
to the speech he made

01:22:27.966 --> 01:22:30.165
at my high school graduation.

01:22:30.166 --> 01:22:30.866
If you have

01:22:30.867 --> 01:22:31.932
the perseverance

01:22:31.933 --> 01:22:33.199
and the commitment,

01:22:33.200 --> 01:22:34.232
each one of you

01:22:34.233 --> 01:22:36.065
can truly enhance

01:22:36.066 --> 01:22:38.032
the lives of other people.

01:22:38.033 --> 01:22:38.966
Each of you can make

01:22:38.967 --> 01:22:40.565
a contribution.

01:22:40.566 --> 01:22:41.200
Each of you can

01:22:41.201 --> 01:22:43.065
make a difference.

01:22:43.066 --> 01:22:51.066
♪

01:22:53.966 --> 01:22:55.199
Every time I fly over

01:22:55.200 --> 01:22:56.965
the San Joaquin valley,

01:22:56.966 --> 01:22:58.732
I ask my pilot to go up

01:22:58.733 --> 01:23:00.499
alongside the west side

01:23:00.500 --> 01:23:01.033
and I look at that

01:23:01.034 --> 01:23:02.832
great aqueduct,

01:23:02.833 --> 01:23:04.965
and I know that I played

01:23:04.966 --> 01:23:05.966
a part in seeing

01:23:05.967 --> 01:23:08.265
that was accomplished.

01:23:08.266 --> 01:23:09.565
And I\'m proud of,

01:23:09.566 --> 01:23:10.999
very proud of my

01:23:11.000 --> 01:23:12.599
accomplishments.

01:23:12.600 --> 01:23:16.832
♪

01:23:16.833 --> 01:23:18.232
Grandpa loved flying up

01:23:18.233 --> 01:23:20.699
and down the state.

01:23:20.700 --> 01:23:27.732
♪

01:23:27.733 --> 01:23:28.965
One time he looked out

01:23:28.966 --> 01:23:30.332
the window and said,

01:23:30.333 --> 01:23:33.432
\"Gosh, look at that.\"

01:23:33.433 --> 01:23:33.966
And the person next

01:23:33.967 --> 01:23:34.999
to him said,

01:23:35.000 --> 01:23:36.699
\"What is it, Governor?\"

01:23:36.700 --> 01:23:37.932
And he said.

01:23:37.933 --> 01:23:39.965
\"California.

01:23:39.966 --> 01:23:40.933
Did you ever see

01:23:40.934 --> 01:23:43.965
anything so amazing?\"

01:23:43.966 --> 01:23:51.966
♪

01:24:14.233 --> 01:24:22.233
♪

01:24:39.600 --> 01:24:47.600
♪

01:24:51.400 --> 01:24:52.200
♪ Well I\'m about

01:24:52.201 --> 01:24:53.699
to get upset ♪

01:24:53.700 --> 01:24:55.665
♪ From watchin\' my TV ♪

01:24:55.666 --> 01:24:57.032
♪ Been checkin\' out the news ♪

01:24:57.033 --> 01:24:58.232
♪ Until my eyeballs

01:24:58.233 --> 01:24:59.565
fail to see ♪

01:24:59.566 --> 01:25:00.166
♪ I mean to say that

01:25:00.167 --> 01:25:01.832
every day is just ♪

01:25:01.833 --> 01:25:03.832
♪ Another rotten mess ♪

01:25:03.833 --> 01:25:04.999
♪ And when it\'s gonna change,

01:25:05.000 --> 01:25:05.866
my friend ♪

01:25:05.867 --> 01:25:07.432
♪ Is anybody\'s guess ♪

01:25:07.433 --> 01:25:08.433
♪ So I\'m watchin\'

01:25:08.434 --> 01:25:09.965
and I\'m waitin\' ♪

01:25:09.966 --> 01:25:11.732
♪ Hopin\' for the best ♪

01:25:11.733 --> 01:25:12.233
♪ Even think I\'ll

01:25:12.234 --> 01:25:13.699
go to prayin\' ♪

01:25:13.700 --> 01:25:15.199
♪ Every time I hear \'em sayin\'

01:25:15.200 --> 01:25:17.232
that there\'s no way to delay ♪

01:25:17.233 --> 01:25:18.033
♪ That trouble comin\'

01:25:18.034 --> 01:25:19.765
every day ♪

01:25:19.766 --> 01:25:20.965
♪ No way to delay

01:25:20.966 --> 01:25:23.665
that trouble comin\' every day ♪

01:25:23.666 --> 01:25:31.599
♪

01:25:31.600 --> 01:25:32.500
♪ Wednesday I watched

01:25:32.500 --> 01:25:33.066
the riot ♪

01:25:33.066 --> 01:25:33.966
♪ I seen the cops out

01:25:33.967 --> 01:25:35.265
on the street ♪

01:25:35.266 --> 01:25:36.399
♪ Watched \'em throwin\'

01:25:36.400 --> 01:25:37.432
rocks and stuff ♪

01:25:37.433 --> 01:25:39.432
♪ And chokin\' in the heat ♪

01:25:39.433 --> 01:25:41.332
♪ Listened to reports about

01:25:41.333 --> 01:25:43.565
the whisky passin\' around ♪

01:25:43.566 --> 01:25:44.999
♪ Seen the smoke and fire

01:25:45.000 --> 01:25:47.532
and the market burnin\' down ♪

01:25:47.533 --> 01:25:48.965
♪ Watched while everybody

01:25:48.966 --> 01:25:49.966
on his street ♪

01:25:49.967 --> 01:25:51.232
♪ Would take a turn ♪

01:25:51.233 --> 01:25:52.365
♪ To stomp and smash

01:25:52.366 --> 01:25:53.366
and bash and crash ♪

01:25:53.367 --> 01:25:54.999
♪ And slash and bust and burn ♪

01:25:55.000 --> 01:25:55.966
♪ And I\'m watchin\'

01:25:55.967 --> 01:25:57.565
and I\'m waitin\' ♪

01:25:57.566 --> 01:25:59.199
♪ Hopin\' for the best ♪

01:25:59.200 --> 01:25:59.933
♪ Even think I\'ll

01:25:59.934 --> 01:26:01.165
go to prayin\' ♪

01:26:01.166 --> 01:26:02.000
♪ Every time I hear

01:26:02.000 --> 01:26:02.966
\'em sayin\' ♪

01:26:02.966 --> 01:26:03.966
♪ That there\'s no way

01:26:03.967 --> 01:26:05.099
to delay... ♪♪

01:26:05.100 --> 01:26:13.100
♪

01:27:39.366 --> 01:27:39.966
Pat Brown was

01:27:39.966 --> 01:27:40.733
the godfather

01:27:40.734 --> 01:27:42.932
of modern California.

01:27:42.933 --> 01:27:43.433
He built the state

01:27:43.434 --> 01:27:44.932
university system.

01:27:44.933 --> 01:27:45.999
He had championed

01:27:46.000 --> 01:27:47.432
civil rights.

01:27:47.433 --> 01:27:47.966
In the same way

01:27:47.966 --> 01:27:48.933
as the Kennedys,

01:27:48.934 --> 01:27:49.965
kind of the West Coast

01:27:49.966 --> 01:27:51.432
political dynasty.

01:27:51.433 --> 01:27:51.966
When he ran against

01:27:51.966 --> 01:27:52.966
Ronald Regan I think

01:27:52.966 --> 01:27:53.700
he personally

01:27:53.701 --> 01:27:54.732
underestimated him.

01:27:54.733 --> 01:27:55.700
But to me,

01:27:55.701 --> 01:27:57.032
he was Grandpa.

01:27:57.033 --> 01:27:57.966
Discover the man

01:27:57.966 --> 01:27:58.766
who put California

01:27:58.766 --> 01:27:59.766
on the map,

01:27:59.766 --> 01:28:00.433
through the lens

01:28:00.434 --> 01:28:01.599
of his granddaughter.

01:28:01.600 --> 01:28:02.999
\"California State of Mind:

01:28:03.000 --> 01:28:05.965
the Legacy of Pat Brown\".

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