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Growing up in Los Angeles; activity in Democratic party, 1938-1979: Young Democrats, Women's Division, Democratic State Central Committee, Democratic party southern division, Democratic Women's Forum; national conventions, 1956-1976: national committeewoman, 1968-1972; losing elections for state chairman, 1976, and national committeewoman, 1964; appointment to State Fair Employment Practices Commission by Edmund G. Brown, Sr.; appointed by state legislators to the South Coast Regional Conservation Commission, and the "Little Hoover Commission." Case t01: Grandparents on mother and father side; immigration and life, in N.Y. lower east side - Father's move to L.A. for health and family following. Leo Harvey's marriage; family and starting business; union problem; expectation for children. Case t02: Warschaw's schooling in public and private progressive schools; family vacations in converted Reo bus; father as free thinker and socialist; family's interest in family matters, community organization, and religion; Pasadena H.S., UCLA, USC; Louis Warschaw and family. Beginning story on signal oil problems and Calif Insurance department. Case t03: Sealed until January 1993; Side A: all on problems with Insurance company in the hands of state conservator; Side B - Graduating on social worker and job in SRA - 1940-1941; activity with Young Democrats; daughter born and move to Arcadia; civic and policial activities; meaning of Jewish Heritage; goal in politics. Case of t04: The Democratic Women's Forum of Los Angeles and its leaders; policies on control of the Dem. party, equal representation of men and women; women and men in politics compared; Warschaw wealth as a factor in her political career. Case of t05: Short discussion of work as party chairman and women division chairman. Election campaign of 1958 and for women's chairman of Dem party southern division; evaluation of the CDC; Sam Yorty; campaigning with Adlai Stevenson, 1956; the 1956 Democratic National Convention Case of t06: George Brown Jr. - John Tunney, 1970, Tuny election 1976; 1960 National Democratic Convention - decision between Kennedy - Johnson; Women at convention; Back problems 1964-1966; Western States Conference and civil rights issue; Women in the Democratic party; the value of the women div.; Jesse Unruh and Pat Brown, [...] Case of t07: Candidates; issues; factions in L.A.: 1962; The county central committee leaders; National committee vice-chairman who were in charge of women's division in Democratic party The campaign for Senate, 1964: [Mosk], Cranston, Salinger. Warschaw's losing campaign for natl committeewoman; Case of t08: 1962-1964; Candidates and [easier] in Los Angeles, 1962; the lack of merit in the county committee; some of the leader; the campaign for U.S. Senate in 1964; Engle, Mosk, Cranston, Salinger- aspects of the national convention; losing as candidate for national committee; the cote on the Miss Freedom Delegation; fundraising as ch. south of the [A]SCC. Sam Yorty, Roger Kent; Bob Coat, Vietnam and Si Casady t09: Warschaw - Interview 4, Tape 9; Governor Brown, Jesse Unruh and the feud in the party; reasons for Brown to try for 3rd term, L.A. Times - Jews; Warschaw relationship to Sam Yorty; Details behind Warschaw's losing election for state chairman; the nasty background maneuvers; Pat Brown; George Brown. t10: #10; The Robert Kennedy campaign and assassination. The 1968 Dem. convention in Chicago; t11: #11; Warschaw elected national committeewoman. [Reviews] ideas about Pat Brown and his manner of making decisions; discusses her work on and the ideas and the idea generated by McGovern reform commission; especially the caucus. Democratic convention of 1972 - her role; unit rule. Some more background on 1968 convention; t12: #12; The California delegation and its response to Humphrey in 1968 and how that may have affected the outcome of the election; Warschaw's [subjection] to hostility and verbal abuse because of her support for Yorty rather than Bradley for mayor of L.A.; Evaluation of state committee - 1968-1972 - B FEPC commission - problems; some cases; Pat Brown interest; t13: #13; 1/2 side A only; Discussion of short term on southern Calif. costal commission and reason for resignation; Discussion of short term on the Little Hoover Commission and its problems.
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