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Zimmerman, Richard Gayford was born on September 3, 1934 in Springfield, Ohio, United States. Son of Charles Ballard and Dorothy Cubitt (Gayford) Zimmerman.
(Michael V. DiSalle was elected to his first and only term...)
Michael V. DiSalle was elected to his first and only term as governor in one of Ohio's most contentious elections, which featured a ferocious battle over the so-called "Right-to-Work" issue, a union-busting constitutional amendment placed on the ballot over the objections of Republican party professionals by fanatic conservative business interests. As a result, Democrats won most statewide offices and briefly gained control of the Ohio General Assembly. During his term, which ran from his inauguration in January 1959 to January 1963, when Republican James Rhodes replaced him, DiSalle passed sorely needed tax increases, but he was less successful in his attempts to pique the conscience of Ohioans on social issues such as the poor conditions in state mental hospitals and the abolishment of capital punishment. His tours of the state's dismal mental institutions were widely publicized, but the public showed little interest in the details concerning the warehousing of the state's most-neglected wards. His agonizing over death-penalty cases that he was legally obligated to review alienated many in the legal and law enforcement communities. DiSalle's private life was almost as controversial as his public life. Throughout his term as governor he was dogged by reports of his wife's unhappiness with her role as Ohio's First Lady and later by rumors of his romantic involvement with his personal secretary. His post-gubernatorial life was marred by several unfortunate business ventures, and like his hero. Thomas Jefferson, DiSalle seemed perpetually short of cash after he left office. Despite the controversies that plagued his career, he never stopped living a caring, passionate life. Those interested in politics and social history will find Call Me Mike invaluable.
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A collection of political remembrances from a longtime Statehouse and Washington bureau reporter Son of an Ohio Supreme Court Justice and longtime political reporter, Rick Zimmerman presents Ohio politics from the inside. He began learning about Ohio politics and politicians as a young boy, sitting at the dinner table presided over by his father, Judge Charles Ballard Zimmerman. The author says his “father was a Democrat of sorts, but identified with the Jeffersonian wing of the party. In short, he was a conservative and a favorable mention of Franklin Roosevelt was practically banned in our house.” Yet, in spite of these philosophical leanings, the elder Zimmerman was truly nonpartisan as far as his political tales were concerned, with an opinion about most political leaders from both parties, that were for the most part negative, a “perspective which my later critics likely would suggest I inherited,” contends Zimmerman. In the same way his father entertained with his reminiscences, author Rick Zimmerman tells stories of and on Ohio’s politicians and their machinations, including governors (James Rhodes and Mike DiSalle), senators, and congressmen. His discussions of Watergate, his African sabbatical, and the National Press Club and reflections on the state of journalism are refreshing, witty, and insightful. Plain Dealing is an engaging memoir that doubles as an irreverent look at Ohio’s political history.
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Zimmerman, Richard Gayford was born on September 3, 1934 in Springfield, Ohio, United States. Son of Charles Ballard and Dorothy Cubitt (Gayford) Zimmerman.
Bachelor of Fine Arts cum laude, Wittenberg University, 1956. Master of Arts, American University, 1958.
Freelance writer and political cartoonist, 1959-1961; wire editor, Urbana (Ohio) Daily Citizen, 1960-1961; state house correspondent, Horvitz Newspapers, Mansfield, Lorain, Dover and Willoughby, Ohio., 1962-1964; state house correspondent, Dayton (Ohio) Journal Herald, 1964-1967; chief state house bureau, Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1967-1971; reporter Washington bureau, Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1971-1972; chief Washington bureau, Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1972-1977; national correspondent, Cleveland Plain Dealer, 1978-1985; freelance writer, Africa, 1977.
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Served with United States Air Force, 1961-1962. Member Ohio Press Club (trustee 1969), National Press Club (secretary 1974-1975, vice chairman board governors 1975-1976, chairman speakers committee 1979-1980, chairman house committee 1986-1988, chairman forum committee 1990-1991, Washington Corresponding award 1982, Lifetime Service award 1995), Ohio Legislation Corrs. Association (vice president 1969-1970), Beta Theta Pi.