#CALIFORNIA: Remembering Governor Jerry Brown as an executive with big plans and common sense.
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 15 June 2024
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#CALIFORNIA: Remembering Governor Jerry Brown as an executive with big plans and common sense.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a CBSI in the world. I'm John Bachelor. To California, the Golden State and |
| 0:09.0 | remembrance of Jerry Brown. Several times Governor I lost count there in the 21st century and to help |
| 0:16.4 | me remember Bill Whelan of the Hoover Institution, he's the host of Policy and Politics at the Hoover Institution, as well as the host and narrator of the |
| 0:28.4 | goodfellas, his combination of remarks on video, on TV, and as a podcast with his of enough to remember Jerry Brown as a governor in the 20th century and then he came back for an |
| 0:45.2 | encore, two encores in the 21st century. |
| 0:49.1 | Bill, your column about Jerry Brown immediately made me what you said I was prey to. |
| 0:54.6 | Nostalgia. |
| 0:55.7 | I remember Jerry Brown riding that fast train in China. |
| 0:59.2 | I remember Jerry Brown saying governors are for big things. He wanted to build the fast rail. He wanted |
| 1:06.7 | to build an aqueduct, I think, from the glaciers of Alaska or something. All of that has not |
| 1:12.2 | happened. |
| 1:13.6 | But remembering Jerry Brown, what do we now make of him looking backwards? |
| 1:19.0 | Good evening to you, Bill. |
| 1:20.0 | Good evening, John. |
| 1:21.4 | So what I was pointing out in the column was there is this sort of sentimental |
| 1:24.7 | journey when it comes to Jerry Brown, who has mentioned served twice as governor in the 70s |
| 1:29.7 | and days and came back to serve again from 2010 to 2018 giving way to our current |
| 1:34.0 | Governor Gavin Newsom. The sentimental thought about Jerry is this John that he |
| 1:37.9 | was the all-wise all-knowing Jerry sort of like Marcus Arelius, the many |
| 1:41.9 | gladiator, |
| 1:42.9 | you all know him Marcus Aurelius. |
| 1:45.0 | He was venturous, cautious, |
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