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16 quotes by Daniel J. Evans

Daniel Jackson Evans (born October 16, 1925) served three terms as the 16th Governor of the state of Washington from 1965 to 1977, and represented the state in the United States Senate from 1983 to 1989. Evans was seriously considered for the Republican vice presidential nomination on the ticket with Gerald Ford in 1976 (but lost out to Bob Dole); Richard Nixon in 1968 had also hinted at a possible Evans nomination for the vice presidency. At...
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Actually, as that first association continued, we got a little more legitimate. In those days, they asked Boy Scout troops to act as ushers during... →

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I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.

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I might say that in retrospect, looking at where the community college system is today, I think we may have gone too far. The community college... →

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I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the... →

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And then, when I went into the Navy, there was no choice. You took about half of the hours during your naval training as naval courses and the other... →

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I think, like a lot of other people who have been in the service, you'd been delayed in what you were doing. You wanted to catch up and the best... →

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I stayed in the Navy until July of 1946.

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We had a big party that night and everybody went around gathering results from various precincts and each person would get four or five precincts and... →

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I got called back into the Navy during the Korean War.

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I didn't take very much part in activities on campus at that time.

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I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically.

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I was always good at math and science and physics.

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Then I came back and restarted at the UW that fall.

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