Pete Wilson didn’t start out wanting to be Governor of California. He recalled a dinner with his father in New York City, shortly before he graduated college. When his father asked him what he wanted to do with his life, Wilson said he replied, “I don’t know but I want to do it here.” Wilson also noted, “I can remember telling my mother once that I wished I had five lives, because there were five things I wanted to do. None of them, by the way, consisted of holding office.”
by Leonard Nathan
After the fifth beer,
Milwaukee softens, fine snow
Wafting me back to the hotel
Where the warmth of the lobby
Floats me up to my room.
I’m calling long distance now
To say: It’s all right love, after all.
Joe Mathews admitted that, even as a born-and-raised Californian, he had but a “newspaper context paragraph understanding” of Pete Wilson’s governorship until recently.
“Not all of those newspaper paragraphs were kind or necessarily accurate,” Mathews said, adding that those who watched Wilson’s years in office closely — and even fought against him during those years — found him to be, contrary to the newspaper-paragraph take, a successful governor. As one senior official in the California Teachers Association told Mathews….
Arturo Sarukhán has been a career diplomat since 1994. Before becoming the Mexican Ambassador to the U.S., he served as Consul General of Mexico in New York, and as a campaign coordinator and international affairs coordinator for Felipe Calderón. He joined Zócalo to discuss the future of Mexico’s relationship with the U.S., but before his talk, stopped to chat with Zócalo about less official matters.
Pamela Starr is, in her words, a born-and-raised “Valley girl.” Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, Starr, the director of the U.S.-Mexico Network at USC, became fascinated with Latin America during high school, observing from afar the civil wars racking Central America. After traveling to Mexico to study Spanish, she said, “I fell in love and I’ve been going back ever since.”
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