REAGAN, Ronald. Autograph draft letter signed ("Ron") as Governor, to Houston I. Flournoy, n.p., [20 November 1967]. 1 page, 8vo, on yellow paper . GOVERNOR REAGAN ON THOMAS JEFFERSON AND CAMPUS PROTESTS DURING THE VIETNAM WAR Reagan marshals a famous Jefferson quote to discredit the professors and protestors roiling the University of California campuses: "Thomas Jefferson said, 'State a moral case to a plowman & a Prof. the Farmer will decide it as well & often better because he has not been led astray by any artificial rules.' This plowman thinks academic freedom can be destroyed by those who provoke confrontation for causes having nothing to do with education." He got the quote slightly wrong -- Jefferson said "the former will decide it as well and often better than the latter because he has not been led astray by artificial rules" - but he had the spirit of it, and it was a spirit shared by many conservatives upset at the leftist protests on campus and by what they perceived to be the permissive coddling of spoiled and privileged students by radical professors and administrators. The University of California at Berkeley had been a hotbed of student protests since the so-called "free speech movement" in 1964, when students resisted the university's ban on using the Telegraph Avenue entrance to the campus to hold political protests. After many violent clashes between police and students, U. C. president Clark Kerr arranged a compromise, allowing use of the entrance for political activity, but only at designated times. Reagan made campus unrest a key issue in his 1966 gubernatorial campaign against Democratic incumbent Pat Brown. He promised to "clean up the mess in Berkeley" and three weeks after being sworn in as governor, Reagan convinced the Board of Regents to fire Kerr. Ironically, the man to whom he addresses this note was himself a professor: Houston I. "Hugh" Flournoy (1929 - ) had been a Pomona College political science professor before winning election as California state comptroller in 1966. He won re-election in 1970, but after an unsuccessful race for governor, returned to a teaching post at U. S. C.
REAGAN, Ronald. Autograph draft letter signed ("Ron") as Governor, to Houston I. Flournoy, n.p., [20 November 1967]. 1 page, 8vo, on yellow paper . GOVERNOR REAGAN ON THOMAS JEFFERSON AND CAMPUS PROTESTS DURING THE VIETNAM WAR Reagan marshals a famous Jefferson quote to discredit the professors and protestors roiling the University of California campuses: "Thomas Jefferson said, 'State a moral case to a plowman & a Prof. the Farmer will decide it as well & often better because he has not been led astray by any artificial rules.' This plowman thinks academic freedom can be destroyed by those who provoke confrontation for causes having nothing to do with education." He got the quote slightly wrong -- Jefferson said "the former will decide it as well and often better than the latter because he has not been led astray by artificial rules" - but he had the spirit of it, and it was a spirit shared by many conservatives upset at the leftist protests on campus and by what they perceived to be the permissive coddling of spoiled and privileged students by radical professors and administrators. The University of California at Berkeley had been a hotbed of student protests since the so-called "free speech movement" in 1964, when students resisted the university's ban on using the Telegraph Avenue entrance to the campus to hold political protests. After many violent clashes between police and students, U. C. president Clark Kerr arranged a compromise, allowing use of the entrance for political activity, but only at designated times. Reagan made campus unrest a key issue in his 1966 gubernatorial campaign against Democratic incumbent Pat Brown. He promised to "clean up the mess in Berkeley" and three weeks after being sworn in as governor, Reagan convinced the Board of Regents to fire Kerr. Ironically, the man to whom he addresses this note was himself a professor: Houston I. "Hugh" Flournoy (1929 - ) had been a Pomona College political science professor before winning election as California state comptroller in 1966. He won re-election in 1970, but after an unsuccessful race for governor, returned to a teaching post at U. S. C.
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