one of the people with a bad temper was the senator hiram johnson from california. he is a very ornery guy. hughes has to get to the east coast. he swings through california before the primary. johnson is the governor. they cannot make decisions of who will escort who. it is worse than the palestinians and israelis. the feelings are so bad. finally what happened is, there is an incident in long beach, california where hughes who heads the not met johnson goes in to rest in the hotel, does not know johnson is there. johnson knows hughes is there. they leave the hotel. they never meet. it is claimed that hughes had alienated johnson in this. really johnson could have made the move. right after that, hughes through an intermediary invites johnson to chair a meeting in sacramento. johnson refuses. and hughes loses the state by about 3000 votes. they do not know until next friday he lost the state. they do not know he lost the election until that friday. meanwhile, hiram johnson wins the primary and the state of california by something like 300,000 votes. so, a lot of peo

one of the people with a bad temper was the senator hiram johnson from california. he is a very ordinary guy. -- or marine -- ornery guy. hughes has to get to the east coast. he swings the california before the prime up -- he swings through california before the primary. johnson is the governor. that cannot make decisions of who will escort who. is worse than the palestinians and israelis. the feelings are so bad. finally what happened is, there is an incident in long beach, california where hughes who heads the not met johnson goes in to rest in the hotel, does not know johnson is there. johnson knows hughes is their. they leave the hotel. they never meet. it is claimed that hughes had alienated johnson in this. really johnson could have made the moat. right after that, hughes through an intermediary invites johnson to chair a meeting in sacramento. johnson refuses. and hughes loses the state by about 3000 votes. they do not know until let -- until next friday he lost the state. bernadino he lost the election until that private. meanwhile, hiram johnson wins the pr

of the strongest progressives, we might a liberal in the 1930s was california at senior senator hiram johnson, the very man who was governor had given us the initiative process and johnson was a republican. he had run for vice president in 1912 with teddy roosevelt on the progressive ticket. both parties have strong conservative wings. among the democrats it was that block of senators and congressmen from the south some of whom would splinter off from the party into the dixiecrats and road stalin -- strom thurmond for president. roosevelt also had antagonism from big business which complained he was creating uncertainty in the industrial economy from all his regulating of child labor and stock and bond trading and food and drug safety and everything else and we heard lately that same cry of uncertainty from regulation which goes to show that some things in politics never change. today liberals complain about the conservative echo chamber and the influence of fox news and what have you. of course there wasn't a fox news in the 1930s the same role was played by the newspaper industry which was

one of the people with a bad temper was the senator hiram johnson from california. s a very ornery guy. hughes has to get to the east coast. he swings through california before the primary. johnson is the governor. the californian republican party is so split. they cannot make decisions of who will escort who. who will chair the meeting -- it is worse than the palestinians and israelis. the feelings are so bad. finally what happened is, there is an incident in long beach, california where hughes who heads the not met johnson goes -- who has still not met johnson goes in to rest in the hotel, does not know johnson is there. johnson knows hughes is there. they leave the hotel. they never meet. it is claimed that hughes had alienated johnson in this. really johnson could have made the move. kenya when he could've gone over. -- he knew and he could have gone over. right after that, hughes through an intermediary invites johnson to chair a meeting in sacramento. johnson refuses. and hughes loses the state by about 3000 votes. they do not know until next friday he lost the