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ae rae tbe eee ee eFANDARD FORM NO, 64 . RG @ : Gy . gp “| Mr. Mohr 4) Mr. Parsons... Office Memo: Asnaum e UNITED STs ES GOVER} Me Ea Mrdbr! t+ “Mr. elishy 1, ' Mr Lede | . taiona . *eGatre Vee TO : Mr. Hoover ParoonaL _2 DATE: 6/20/68 te - ee ee eee PROM > BAC Auerbach | ' SUBJECT: EDMUND G. “FAT BROWN i GOVERNOR : “a. STATS OF CALIFORNIA on that he himself did not know and had not personally made the appointment, it having been done through the Chairman of the Joint Committee. We deplored the situation and said that the general organization was SO loose that things like this couid occur and he would immediately take steps to see that the situation was corrected. He was very voluble in his appreciation of your courtesy in assisting him and refiected that, in his opinion, this was another good example of your impersonai desire to assist in generai good government. He then went on at considerabie length as to the unique position that you had as the finest example of a Govern- ment administrator that he couid think of. He went on to note that he would be very careful with his nandling of the situation in order to insure that his reiationship with the Bureau was not impaired in any way. : : The Governor wes obviously terribly put out and stated (elt. The Goverror taixed at considerable length about the problems that he was facing with a poor personal staff as he had previously done and said that so many things were going on, this being an election year, that he had difficulty staying up with the many facets of not only the Governorship responsibility itself but his position in connection with the coming convention and campaign. The Governor then went on in detail as to a variety of points and specificaliy mentioned that of the Democratic National Committeeman who, he said, had been flushed down the ; river as being a power any longer in Califenia Democratic politics. We said that a number of people must have been tremendously surprised that Brown was supporting Attorney General Stanle~Mosk _aS a replacement except that they cid not know that Mosk was about {the only one “acceptabie to the os Angeles bunch." He said that 'Mosk would not have been his personal choice but tnat he had more ‘or less been forced into the situation in ordgr_to have a.unified | group. We said that perhavs he shouldn't tay dike phis,. being a Roman Catholic, but that a background reason that’ they as at JUL i 1960 7 4. ~ dk Li iguy 7 ee ee rears s