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Oral history interview with William T. Bagley

Bagley discusses his post-legislative career. From 1975-1979 he served as the first chairman of the federal Commodity Futures Trading Commission in Washington, D.C., with responsibility for creating a new body regulatory law. His discussion of these years and of his subsequent California state service on the Public Utilities Commission and the California Transportation Commission includes observations on the dangers of combining judicial, legislative, and executive power in regulatory commissions, and on the gubernatorial administrations of Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Ronald Reagan, and George Deukmejian. In his discussion of his public law practice with the firm of Nossaman, Guthner, Knox, and Elliot, he reflects on the changes in the California legislature since 1974.

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