Word: governors
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...resting under a tree with the Rendille tribesmen in Kenya when California Governor Jerry Brown came avisiting [April 23]. As he and his entourage charged about in the midday sun, raising dust, frightening the cattle and poking their heads uninvited into Rendille homes, the tribesmen asked us what he was doing. I said he was studying. "But what does he do?"one of the Rendille persisted. "Well," said I, "he is leader of a tribe in the most powerful federation of tribes in the world. He is a Great Chief." Just as I was saying this, a howling mob armed...
...have very little respect for each other. One is President, and the other wants his job. Jimmy Carter regards Governor Jerry Brown of California as a sloganeering opportunist, while Brown considers Carter incompetent. Nonetheless, Brown telephoned Carter at the White House last week to ask for an audience, and Carter, in the straight-faced account of Press Secretary Jody Powell, "was happy to provide it." What brought them together two days later was the gasoline shortage, which has been felt nowhere in the country so sharply as in California...
Outside California, drivers so far seem to have their emotions more under control, but gasoline supplies are falling below demand in almost every state. Florida Governor Bob Graham reported last week that the summer shortage could be anywhere from 5% to 15%, depending on how much Floridians and tourists use their cars...
...phase-out to reduce the economic shock, and others want a moratorium until future health and hazard studies are done." The most notable political figure among the demonstrators-and among such familiar protest figures as Jane Fonda,Tom Hayden,Dick Gregory and Bella Abzug-was California's Governor Jerry Brown, who called for a moratorium on new plants but not a shutdown of existing ones. Says he: "I'm at the forefront of the antinuclear movement...
...through the winter of the fragile condition of energy supplies found the President to be uncomprehending of the forces that could be unleashed by an energy crunch. He insisted in his best Sunday-school manner that U.S. citizens would voluntarily adjust to energy inconvenience. His uneventful weeks as Georgia Governor during the 1973 oil embargo further clouded his view. America could cope without a lot of shouting from above...