Word: reagan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...from interference by state legislature. I have recently learned from conversations with members of several California faculties that a rear-guard action complete with credibility gap is being fought there. The precedent of sixty years ago is apparently too recent a development to have found its way into Governor Reagan's world historical picture...
...only manifestation of governmental interference in California higher education which has received widespread press coverage is Kerr's dismissal. Other smaller incidents have never come to light because members of the reactionary Los Angeles power cartel which both supports and steers Reagan also control the Los Angeles newspapers. A member of the Chandler family on the Board of Regents voted against Kerr...
...UCLA chose to act on complaints from several students or their families that pictures of nudes were being shown in an art history course. Crank complaints of this sort have apparently occurred as long as art history courses have been given but significantly enough have been ignored prior to Reagan's becoming Governor. In a state where the public schools are headed by a man so reactionary he opposes use of textbooks mentioning the UN, it is frightening to contemplate extension of this conservative vise-grip to higher education. Mr. Reagan and Mr. Rafferty seem to share one mind, possibly...
...token of his resolve to cut spending, Reagan's office announced that the new administration would make do with the old regime's stationery, crossing out the names of Brown's officials and typing in those of their successors. And rather than ask the state to build a new split-level to replace the Governor's 90-year-old gingerbread mansion in Sacramento-his wife Nancy calls it "a fire-trap"-Reagan said he would endorse the efforts of a citizens' group that is trying to raise money for a new official residence...
...urge irresistible. J. Edgar Hoover, suggests Columnist Art Buchwald, might cut Voices of Famous People I Have Bugged-if he could get the tapes from Bobby Kennedy. Lurleen Wallace could do Lurleen Plays Music to Segregate By, with Husband George conducting the Alabama State Police Symphony Orchestra. And Ronald Reagan might try Ronnie Reagan Swings at Berkeley. At any rate, as Dirksen himself has noted, the path from show biz to politics is no longer a one-way street...