Print, politics and public service : oral history transcript : a life in San Francisco Bay Area newspapers, the Democratic party, and California government commissions / Joseph C. Houghteling ; interviews conducted by Ann Lage and Laura McCreery in 2002. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Li

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Print, politics and public service : oral history transcript : a life in San Francisco Bay Area newspapers, the Democratic party, and California government commissions / Joseph C. Houghteling ; interviews conducted by Ann Lage and Laura McCreery in 2002. Regional Oral History Office, the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, 2003.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54887924

Family background, childhood, education in San Francisco Bay Area; Navy ROTC at Bates College and Holy Cross, post-World War II duty in the Pacific; Yale University, B.A. 1947; newspaper publishing in the communities of Sunnyvale, Gilroy, Los Gatos, Saratoga, Mountain View, and Pleasanton, California, 1940s-1970s: financing, advertising, union activity, circulation, wire services, competition; Adlai Stevenson, John F. Kennedy, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, Edmund G. "Jerry" Brown, Jr., Alan Cranston, and Democratic Party politics, 1950s-1970s; California State Park Commission, 1959-1965; California Highway Commission, 1964-1966; San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), 1971-1972; Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, 1984-1992; election campaigns for Pete McCloskey, John Tunney, Al Alquist, John Garamendi; and reflections on family. correspondence and copies of newspaper clippings.

Transcript: 1 v. (ii, 210 p.) : ill. (some col.), ports. ; 29 cm.Original interviews: 13 sound cassettes.Supplementary material: 1 portfolio.

UC Berkeley Libraries

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7683529

UC Berkeley Libraries

Related Entities

There are 18 Entities related to this resource.

Stevenson, Adlai E. (Adlai Ewing), 1900-1965

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w697088x (person)

Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (February 5, 1900 – July 14, 1965) was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat. Raised in Bloomington, Illinois, Stevenson was a member of the Democratic Party. He served in numerous positions in the federal government during the 1930s and 1940s, including the Agricultural Adjustment Administration, Federal Alcohol Administration, Department of the Navy, and the State Department. In 1945, he served on the committee that created the United Nations, and he was a me...

Garamendi, John Raymond, 1945-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63881cw (person)

John Raymond Garamendi (born January 24, 1945) is an American businessman and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he has represented California's 3rd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives since 2009. The district was numbered the 10th district from 2009 to 2013. Garamendi was the California Insurance Commissioner from 1991 to 1995 and 2003 to 2007, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of the Interior from 1995 to 1998, and the 46th lieutenant governor of California from 2007...

San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62g2m9h (corporateBody)

Houghteling, Joseph C., 1924-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6cv7qhx (person)

Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6387zpq (person)

John Fitzgerald Kennedy was born on May 29, 1917, to Joseph P. Kennedy and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy of Brookline, Massachusetts. John Kennedy, the second of nine children, attended Choate Academy (1932-1935), Princeton University (1935-36), Harvard College (1936-40), and Stanford Business School (1941). In 1940, he published a book based on his senior thesis entitled "Why England Slept." The book criticized British policy of Appeasement. In 1941, Kennedy enlisted in the Navy. In August 1943, Kenn...

Brown, Edmund G. (Edmund Gerald), 1905-1996

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w66112f2 (person)

Governor of California, 1959-1967. From the description of Press conference recording, 1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122553823 Edmund Gerald "Pat" Brown (1905-1996), born in San Francisco, Calif., was the thirty-second governor of California from 1959 to 1967. From the description of Brown, Edmund G. (Edmund Gerald), 1905-1996 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10569285 Biographical Note ...

California State Park Commission

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65b4sxz (corporateBody)

Tunney, John V. (John Varick), 1934-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6q24870 (person)

U.S. Congressman from Riverside Calif., and U.S. Senator from 1971-77. From the description of John V. Tunney papers, circa 1960-1980. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 26863469 ...

Brown, Jerry, 1938-....

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67376c3 (person)

McCloskey, Paul N., 1927-

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65q5d3t (person)

United States representative from California, 1967-1983. From the description of Paul N. McCloskey papers, 1967-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754871978 Biographical Chronology 1927 September 29 Born, Loma Linda, California 1945 1947 Se...

California. Highway Commission

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jx34j2 (corporateBody)

Administrative History The first state agencies formed for the purpose of constructing roadways were established in 1895. In that year, the Bureau of Highways was created to study the laws, physical features, and economic and legal status of highways in the State (Stats. 1895, ch. 203). In addition, a Tahoe Wagon Road Commissioner was appointed to investigate the possibilities of construction of a road to Lake Tahoe (Stats. 1895, ch. 128). In...

Democratic Party (Calif.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6mh1cb0 (corporateBody)

Alquist, Alfred E.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6s48799 (person)

Alfred Ernest Alquist was born August 2, 1908, in Memphis, Tennessee. He began his political career in 1960, when he ran for California's 28th District Assembly seat but lost to incumbent Clark Bradley in the general election, after having won the highly contested primary. In 1962, he won a State Assembly seat in the 24th District, which included Saratoga, Campbell, and northern San José. As an Assemblyman, Alquist focused his platform on stopping pollution. After serving two terms, he ran for ...

Tahoe Regional Planning Agency

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6547zx3 (corporateBody)

Since 1960, Lake Tahoe environment has been under intense pressure to meet demands of mobile, recreation-seeking public. Tahoe Regional Planning Agency created by act of Congress to "maintain an equilibrium between region's natural endowment and its man-made environment". Agency's Governing Body composed of representatives from five California and Nevada counties, one representative appointed by Governor of each state, the director of each state's natural resources agency, a councilman from city...

McCreery, Laura

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ps11s2 (person)

Lage, Ann.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fj3bxr (person)

Cranston, Alan MacGregor.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67p944r (person)

Cranston was a Democratic U.S. Senator from Calif., 1969-1993. From the description of Alan Cranston letters : TLS, 1969 and 1972. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 122539548 ...

Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w62845mv (corporateBody)

According to the University of California, Berkeley Bancroft Library website: "The Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) is a research program of the University of California, Berkeley, working within The Bancroft Library. ROHO conducts, teaches, analyzes, and archives oral and video history documents in a broad variety of subject areas critical to the history of California and the United States." For more information regarding the ROHO and their work please consult their website: http://bancroft....