"'He was a former football player at USC, which in Southern California was practically a passport to political advancement,' Weinberger wrote. 'Nixon won the primary but he did so without generating much GOP enthusiasm.'
"Democratic incumbent Pat Brown was reelected governor."
Valerie J. Nelson in the Los Angeles Times writes an obit for Joe Shell, the California state assemblyman who in 1962 ran against Richard Nixon for the Republican gubernatorial nomination.
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