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Post by the Scribe on Oct 13, 2023 9:43:54 GMT
Jerry Brown Perks Up On Presidential Politics 35 Years After One of His Best and Most Disastrous Speeches www.huffpost.com/entry/jerry-brown-perks-up-on-p_b_6961608 After winning a landslide re-election as governor of California by a whopping 20 points, the 41-year old Brown set out to take down the president he'd beaten in a string of late presidential primaries in 1976. By William Bradley, Contributor Political Analyst, former presidential campaign advisor and special advisor to the governor -- "Let there be light." Mar 28, 2015, 01:52 PM EDT |Updated Mar 28, 2015
After winning a landslide re-election as governor of California by a whopping 20 points, the 41-year old Brown set out to take down the president he'd beaten in a string of late presidential primaries in 1976.
But politics is also a matter of circumstance as well as intrinsic worth, and Brown's second presidential run ran up against big circumstances. Ted Kennedy decided to try for the restoration of Camelot, running against incumbent President Jimmy Carter, setting up the central dynamic of the primaries. Complicating it all was the Iranian hostage crisis.
As a result, there was little oxygen in the race for Brown, whose high-profile relationship with rock music queen Linda Ronstadt distracted as much as it tantalized. He looked for niches of support here and there, pushing some ideas now mostly seen as mainstream but which marginalized him at the time. Potential support bled away, even in California.
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Post by the Scribe on Oct 27, 2023 6:17:35 GMT
Linda Ronstadt recalls time with Jerry Brown in new memoir www.latimes.com/politics/la-xpm-2013-sep-17-la-me-pc-linda-ronstadt-jerry-brown-20130917-story.html BY ANTHONY YORK SEPT. 17, 2013 12 AM PT
Linda Ronstadt’s new memoir recounts her decades-long career in music and chronicles her current battle with Parkinson’s disease. But the autobiography of the former Stone Poney’s frontwoman is also peppered with references to her former beau, Gov. Jerry Brown.
Ronstadt recounts a time during the winter of 1979 when she was “keeping company” with the then-41-year-old governor when a series of winter storms threatened to wipe out her Malibu Colony home. “The newspapers had begun to speculate on whether the governor was going to spend state money to protect his girlfriend’s house,” Ronstadt writes. “Precisely because of such speculation, Jerry had already decided not to.”
Brown also makes cameos answering the phone when Ronstadt received her offer to star in the Broadway musical “Pirates of Penzance” and reappropriating a bouquet of roses someone had sent Ronstadt to give as a gift to Rosemary Clooney. Ronstadt even offers a brief retelling of the couple’s first meeting at Lucy’s El Adobe Mexican Restaurant in Hollywood, an old haunt the governor still visits from time to time and where pictures of a younger Brown still adorn the walls.
At first blush it’s hard to imagine the woman who was in the middle of the L.A. rock scene of the 1970s, who tells tales of all-night jam sessions with Gram Parsons and Keith Richards in the Hollywood Hills, had anything in common with the philosophical, Latin-quoting former and current governor.
But Ronstadt explains their connection, saying the two “had a lot of fun for a number of years. He was smart and funny, not interested in drinking or drugs, and lived his life carefully, with a great deal of discipline,” attributes she describes as “a relief” from the musicians she hung around with.
“Neither of us ever suffered under the delusion that we would like to share each other’s lives. I would have found his life too restrictive, and he would have found mine entirely chaotic,” she continues. “Eventually we went our separate ways and embraced things that resonated with us as different individuals … We have always remained on excellent terms.”
ALSO:
Linda Ronstadt has parkinsons, says she can no longer sing www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-linda-ronstadt-parkinsons-20130824,0,7346755.story Linda Ronstadt, her most memorable songs www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-linda-ronstadt-memorable-songs-20130824,0,7114242.story Linda Ronstadt to appear live in LA www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-linda-ronstadt-to-appear-live-in-la-for-her-book-simple-dreams-20130827,0,1647983.story
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Post by the Scribe on Dec 22, 2023 22:53:11 GMT
Jerry brown run for president in 1979 featuring the eagles and Linda Ronstadtalmost 50 years later:
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Post by the Scribe on Jan 9, 2024 1:48:40 GMT
Linda Ronstadt - Largo, Maryland, May 14, 1976
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127 views Dec 25, 2023 LARGO Audience recording from “Take a Deep Breath: The Concert for Jerry Brown” at Capital Center in Largo, Maryland on May 14, 1976. Setlist: 1. Still In Love With You 2. Heart Like A Wheel 3. Silver Threads And Golden Needles 4. Desperado 5. Linda speech 10. When Will I Be loved?
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