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Oral history with Arthur L. Alarcon, California State Government Oral Histories

Title: California State Government Oral Histories

OralHistoryResource: 394 pages (transcript)

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MacBride, Thomas J., 1914-. Oral history interview with Thomas J. MacBride : oral history transcript / by Julie Shearer, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives, 1987.

Title: Oral history interview with Thomas J. MacBride : oral history transcript / by Julie Shearer, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives, 1987.

MacBride discusses a wide range of political and governmental topics for his years in the California Assembly, 1950-1960: Democratic local, state, and national campaigns; legislative organization, leadership, and negotiations on tidelands oil revenues, state employees, budget and revenues, fish and game concerns, California Water Plan, death penalty, role of lobbyists, Sacramento constitutents' concerns; comments on Ralph Brown, Edmund G. Brown, Sr., Jesse Unruh, Caspar Weinberger, and other public figures.

ArchivalResource: [v], ii, 119 p. ; 29 cm.

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Currie, W. Ralph. 1904-. Oral history interview with W. Ralph Currie, 1988. Transcript. / by Gabrielle Morris, University of California, Berkeley for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives.

Title: Oral history interview with W. Ralph Currie, 1988. Transcript. / by Gabrielle Morris, University of California, Berkeley for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives.

Currie's oral history describes development of California Department of Finance revenue forecasting methods, 1936-1968, including population forecasting, other economic studies; legislative revenue and taxation committees; budget preparation and financial concerns of Governors Earl Warren, Edmund G. Brown, Sr., Ronald Reagan; directors of finance Arlin Stockburger, James Dean, John Peirce, Hale Champion, Gordon Paul Smith, and Caspar Weinberger; Assemblyman Thomas MacBride.

ArchivalResource: 63 p. of typescript.

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Catalogue II of the Regional Oral History Office, 1980-1997

Title: Catalogue II of the Regional Oral History Office, 1980-1997

Poole , Cecil F. (b. 1914), Federal district and appellate judge. Civil Rights, Law, and the Federal Courts: The Life of Cecil Poole , 1914-1997, 1997, vii, 248 pp. Childhood and education; military service; private law practice in San Francisco; Assistant U.S. District Attorney, Northern District, California, 1951-1958; secretary, legal, to Governor Edmund G. Brown, 1958-1961; U.S. District Attorney, Northern District, 1961-1970; federal judge, U.S. District Court, Northern District, 1976-1979; judge, U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Judicial Circuit, 1979-1997; discusses sentencing guidelines, appellate procedures, challenges for an African-American lawyer and judge, Democratic politics, some significant appellate cases. Introduction by William Coblentz, longtime friend, and law firm partner, Coblentz, Cahen, McCabe & Breyer. Interviewed 1993 by Carole Hicke.

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