Oral history interview with Victor V. Veysey, 1988. Transcript. / by Enid H. Douglass, Claremont Graduate School for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives.

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Oral history interview with Victor V. Veysey, 1988. Transcript. / by Enid H. Douglass, Claremont Graduate School for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives.

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Mr. Veysey talks about his training and career at Caltech, including his wartime experiences, and assuming the role of owner/operator of a farm near Brawley in Imperial County. He discusses Jesse Unruh as speaker and the manner in which the assembly operated in the 1960s. He compares Governors Edmund G. Brown, Sr. and Ronald Reagan and mentions his service on a select committee on campus disturbances. Also, school finance, reapportionment, running for congress, service after congress.

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