Governor Jerry Brown

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    “President Lowell of Harvard appealed to students ‘to prepare themselves for such services as the Governor may call upon them to render.’ Dean Greenough organized an ‘emergency committee,’ and Coach Fisher was reported by the press as having declared, ‘To hell with football if men are needed.’”
    —For the State of Massachusetts, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    “Dianne’s not one of the boys, but she’s not one of the girls, either.”
    —Marcia Smolens, U.S. political campaign aide. As quoted in Dianne Feinstein, ch. 15, by Jerry Roberts (1994)

    “Just the same as a month before,—
    The house and the trees,
    The barn’s brown gable, the vine by the door,—
    Nothing changed but the hives of bees.”
    —John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)