In a phone conversation on Nov. 7, 1962, California Gov. Pat Brown discusses his recent defeat of Richard Nixon in the 1962 gubernatorial election. Brown was running for reelection against Nixon. Nixon gave a press conference after the election denouncing the news media as biased against him. Brown and Kennedy think Nixon is a "nut" and "paranoid" and that his political career is washed up. Toward the end of the conversation, Pat Brown puts his then young son Jerry Brown on the phone. Jerry Brown became governor in the 1970s and again was elected in 2010. Jerry Brown tells JFK that he (JFK) will carry California in the 1964 presidential election. (Of course, Kennedy was assassinated and never got to run in 1964.) The recording is on a defective dictabelt which used a needle-in-groove technology. The deterioration of the dictabelt causes the needle to skip so words repeat.
