Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. talks about executive hiring freeze order due to passage of Proposition 13

California Gov. Edmund G. Brown Jr., gestures during a press conference at Los Angeles Airport on June 7, 1978. The governor signed an executive order earlier which will immediately freeze all job hiring and replacements in the state as a result of passage of Proposition 13. The governor told the news conference that he would ask for a limit on state spending and that he would implement cuts in the state government where it was possible to do so without causing "human suffering." (UPI/Bill Hormell/Files)