My Life

I tell about my boyhood in the 1920s and 1930s on a small farm, living in relativepoverty (by current living standards), when I wouldnt have dreamed that I wouldhave the life that I have lived: a law school degree from the University of Oregon a successful and interesting career an enjoyable family life with four children despite the loss of two wives to cancer combat in WWII and military service in the Korean War extensive involvement with government (state and federal) interesting experiences with foreign governmentsThe Bahamas, Ecuador,Indonesia, and Iran involvement in the Rockefeller for President campaigns that could have changedhistory historic battles over land use planning and workmens compensation at the stateand federal levels campaigns for Congress in 1982 and 1984 over twenty years as a volunteer with Oregonians In Action, fi ghting for propertyrights and reforming Oregons badly fl awed land use system extensive travels all over the world, except the continent of AfricaIn the last chapter, I write about my outlook on the future of this country. Icomment on the Moshofsky childrens rise from poverty to prosperity and thehuge technological advances after my boyhood in the 1920s, which were madepossible by the free market, private enterprise system. I warn that the system is injeopardy because of the fl awed policies of the Obama administration, and urgeeveryone to do everything they can to be sure that he is a one-term president.I have included in the APPENDIX a speech I gave in 1972 on environmentalextremism, a 1975 article on excessive government intrusion in land use, and myJobs for Oregon program in my 1982 campaign for Congress.