The Governor's Office under Goodwin Knight

The Governor's Office under Goodwin Knight

1979

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Interviews with five staff members. Interviewees (copies of photographs and of documentary material inserted), and titles of interviews, as follows: Douglas Barrett. Goodwin Knight's Governor's Office, 1953-1958, and the Youth Authority, 1958-1965. Press secretary and personal friend. Tom M. Bright. The Governor's Office of Goodwin J. Knight, 1953-1958. Departmental secretary and press secretary. Sadie Perlin Groves. A Career as Private Secretary to Goodwin Knight, 1952-1958. Maryalice Lemmon. Working in the Governor's Office, 1950-1959. Working in secretarial capacities for Governors Earl Warren and Pat Brown also. Paul Mason. Covering the Legislature for Governor Goodwin J. Knight. Executive and legislative secretary. Comments also on California water plan and liquor lobby. All interviewees comment on inner workings of the governor's office, the transition from the Warren administration, contrasts with Warren, Knight as governor and politician, and the campaigns in which he was involved, including the 1958 gubernatorial campaign.