CALIFORNIA: Man of the West

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On the pediment of the neoclassic State Office Building at Sacramento is inscribed a line from a poem by the late Sam Walter FOSS: BRING ME MEN TO'MATCH MY MOUNTAINS. Visitors to the Governor's office frequently wonder if Earl Warren, California's 30th governor and favorite son for the Republican Presidential nomination, is not such a man.

Big, blond, blue-eyed Governor Warren seems to radiate goodness and warmth. Impressed by his relaxed good nature, his evident simplicity, the eager "yes, yes" and "uh-huh, uh-huh" with which he indicates earnest interest in...

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