Jerry Brown, onetime (He graduated from St. Ignatius High School and studied at Santa Clara University. In 1958, he entered Sacred Heart Novitiate, a Jesuit seminary, intending to become a Catholic priest.) Jesuit seminarian, believes that sin is original and selfish instincts natural, and he also suspects that America is experiencing a "counterreformation" — against the expansive governmental policies of past years. What makes these views especially striking, of course, is that Brown, 37, is the Democratic Governor of California. In his first year in office, he has curbed growth in his state's burgeoning governmental employment and spending.
He has admonished Californians to lower their sights, prepare to make needed sacrifices instead of slaking the urge to consume, and accept unaccustomed notions of inherent limits instead of boundless growth. That dialectic has made Brown, for the moment at least, the most popular Governor in California history. By a margin of more than 7 to 1, voters polled recently by Mervin Field approved his performance — a level of support well above Ronald Reagan's at his peak.
Link (here) to the Decemeber 08, 1975 Time Magazine article entitled, Jerry Brown: Learning to Live with Our Limits
Cover of Newsweek of Jerry Brown and Linda Ronstadt
A video of Linda Ronstadt with Johnny Cash singing the song, Never Will I Marry
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