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"1984 Olympics" Paul Ziffren Hand Signed 8X10 B&W Photo: $209.99
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ES-7035E Paul Ziffren, who as California’s Democratic national committeeman in the 1950s steered the party on a more liberal course and as chairman of the board of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics helped fulfill pledges of a Games free to local taxpayers, has died at his Malibu home. Ziffren, who died of congestive heart failure Friday night, was 77. “I regard Paul Ziffren as the builder of the California Democratic Party,” former Gov. Edmund G. (Pat) Brown said Saturday. “We only had one Democratic governor in 60 years, Culbert Olson. By his intelligent work, Ziffren in time built the party up to the point where I was able to be elected the second. . . . He was a close personal friend and a man I admired from our first meeting.” Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley called Ziffren “a remarkable leader who had a capacity to bring together people of different backgrounds and diverse interests and lead them to solve great problems. “One of his greatest contributions, and a legacy of his leadership, were the Olympic Games of 1984,” Bradley said. “He chaired the organizing committee, which produced the greatest Games in the history of the Olympic movement. He was a dear personal friend whose advice and counsel assisted me on many occasions.” Peter V. Ueberroth, president and staff director of the 1984 Olympic committee, said of Ziffren: “He drew respect and trust from every part of society. His Republican friends were the best and most effective Republicans and his Democratic friends were the best and most effective Democrats. His leadership provided the umbrella of shade and protection for those who worked for the 1984 Olympic Games. “He gave generously and unselfishly to his friends, and I was fortunate to be one of them.” A leader in the Los Angeles Jewish community, as well as in legal and political circles, Ziffren had long been a close political associate of Bradley, who in 1979 asked him to chair the Olympic effort. As Ueberroth noted Saturday, it fell to the gaunt, angular, soft-spoken lawyer to run political interference for the Games, while Ueberroth was in operational charge. Before the 1984 Olympics were formally awarded to the city, Ziffren had predicted they would make a $100-million profit, an estimate most people regarded at the time as outlandish. Years later, Ziffren would recall with great pride his prediction, which was less than half the $222.7 million actually realized. Ziffren, who learned a great deal about politics while a law associate of Chicago’s one-time Democratic boss, Jacob Arvey, moved to Southern California in 1943 and became a leading Beverly Hills tax attorney. By 1950, he was raising funds for Helen Gahagan Douglas in her futile U.S. Senate campaign against Richard M. Nixon. In 1953, Ziffren was chosen California’s Democratic national committeeman. In his nearly eight years in that post (during which he was instrumental in bringing the 1960 Democratic National Convention to Los Angeles) and later, Ziffren stirred controversy by pressing for a stronger civil rights stand by Democrats and for more of a “Western accent” in the party rather than a Southern one. Ziffren was replaced by Stanley Mosk, then state attorney general and now a state Supreme Court justice, as national committeeman in 1960 in a move supported by Brown. Afterward, Los Angeles Times Political Editor Kyle Palmer wrote:
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