Oral history interview with Verne E. Gleason : oral history transcript / By James Leiby and Julie Shearer, Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Era Governmental History Project, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley for the State Government Oral History Progra

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Oral history interview with Verne E. Gleason : oral history transcript / By James Leiby and Julie Shearer, Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Era Governmental History Project, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley for the State Government Oral History Program, California State Archives, 1981.

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Gleason discusses Department of Social Welfare directors and organization, 1937-1970; administrative style and legislative programs of governors of the period; state Health and Welfare Agency organization, administrators; development of principal legislation features of California public assistance and welfare services programs, including 1971 Welfare Reform Act; comments on Governors Edmund G. Brown, Sr., Ronald Reagan, administrators Lucian Vandegrift, Robert Carleson, James Lowry; legislators Philip Burton, Robert Moretti, Stephen Teale; and others.

[iv], vii, 183, [2] p.; 29 cm.

California State Archives

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Gleason, Verne E., 1911-

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Verne Gleason began his career in the California Department of Social Welfare in 1937 and from 1950-1970 was assistant director of the department; from 1970-1974, he was special adviser on human relations to the California State Senate. From the description of Oral history interview with Verne E. Gleason : oral history transcript / By James Leiby and Julie Shearer, Ronald Reagan Gubernatorial Era Governmental History Project, Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, Univer...

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State Government Oral History Program (Calif.)

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Administrative History Documentation of California state government with the use of oral history techniques began in 1969 with the Earl Warren Era Oral History Project. It was initiated by the Regional Oral History Office of the Bancroft Library and "centered on key developments in politics and government administration at the state and county level, innovations in criminal justice, public health, and social welfare from 1928-1953." ...

Leiby, James

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Shearer, Julie Gordon

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