Word: patly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Above all eke, behind his hail-fellow heartiness. Pat Brown is a worrier. He worries about his weight. He worries about his clothes, is a meticulous dresser despite a tendency toward garterless socks that droop. He worries about having people disagree with him, follows almost every declarative sentence with a question: "Don't you think so?" He worries about his hold on the voters. "Frankly," he confides, "I think I'm closer to the people of California than anyone since Hiram Johnson." Then he asks: "Don't you think so?" He worries about being liked, he worries...
...Miserable." Edmund Gerald Brown was born April 21, 1905 in San Francisco's "Western Addition," then a middle-class section of narrow homes with stained-glass windows and Victorian gingerbread, now part of the city's expanding Negro community. Pat's father, Edmund Joseph Brown, was a trim, likable man, given to fancy gold watch chains, aromatic cigars and second-best poker hands...
...extracurricular activities. "I have always wanted to be a leader," he recalls. He won first prize in a grade school oratorical contest, ended his speech with the deathless words: "Give me liberty or give me death!" That promptly got him dubbed Patrick Henry Brown-and he has been Pat Brown ever since. But leadership had its problems for cautious Pat Brown. He was easily the best-liked kid at San Francisco's Lowell High School, served as cheerleader and wanted desperately to be elected president of the student body. "But the captain of the football team was running," says...
...School and was admitted to the bar in 1927. But his real interest, then and now, was in being liked, in being a leader-and a political career was inevitable. He ran as a Republican for assemblyman in 1928, but the G.O.P. competition was stiff in San Francisco, and Pat lost in the party primary. When he next ran for public office-in New Deal 1939-he was a Democrat. "I've never regretted the change," he tells his friends. "I'm not entirely satisfied with everything, but I have considerable more intellectual solace as a Democrat than...
...time he took office, Pat Brown had never tried a criminal case. But he surrounded himself with promising young trial lawyers, moved hard against gambling and vice interests, wrote a good record...