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4 bee ene nee seat ate & - tower . a os a mee ce ee ee ee em ne ne se =: ers not talk about inciuded the fact that there were some powerful Jewish interests which were backing Mosk and which could not be ignored. He also noted that he would like very much to get Mosk back on to the bench aniout of the Attorney Generalship so that .he could appoint San Francisco District Attorney Tom Lynch in his place. He said he felt that Mosk was not generally acceptable to the law enforcement crowd in California but didn't know what he could do about it except to try and push him upstairs. The Governor gave quite a frank personal opinion on the various Democratic candidates and noted that for all of the fact that Kennedy had an excellent war record and was obviously a bright man, yet he just looked too youthful and among all the candidates appeared as a boy among men. He feels that, if there is any kind of a real big conflict at the convention, Stuart Symington could very well wind up as the compromise candidate and wished that Symington was a more personable individual, at least | on TV. It seemed to me that he discounted entirely the prospects of Lyndon Johnson. The Governor spent a considerable amount of time reflect- ing that he had received quite a drubbing from the newspapers on his own situation and said that it obviously was mereiy political conversation because after all he had received 69 per cent of the total Democratic vote am would cail it a clear-cut mandate that he was representing the Democratic Party and would have the votes of the delegates in his vest pocket to deal with. The Governor asked me if we were satisfied with the out- come of the Standards ami Sualifications Commission made by hav- ing former San Diego Police Department Captain Gene Muehleisen as the replacement for Holstrom. I told him we were very well satisfied with it and noted that Muehleisen was a National Academy graduate just like all the rest of the law enforcement on the Commission. Seizing this as an opportunity, I noted that two of the members of the Commission had originally received one-year appointments which would terminate this October and suggested that, since the Commission was just getting started, he might want to reappoint them for continuity. He asked me if I knew them personally and I told him that I did and that they were fine representatives, whereupon he stated he would not announce it now but would wait until the term was over in October and then would reappoint them. He said that he was terribly surprised when he