The Legend of Pat Brown

"History's judgments often need to ferment; Brown is generally acknowledged now as one of the state's greatest governors, but that appellation came with time.
"In 1966, after all, he was booted from office by Reagan in a landslide. So perhaps views of this era, too, will be revised upward.
"But it is harder to imagine that views of government, pummeled over the course of four decades, will reverse any time soon."

Cathleen Decker in the Los Angeles Times laments the loss of Pat Brown's California.