The opening question would have resonance far beyond the California governor's mansion: "What [do you] consider the most clearly impractical demand regularly made by conservative theorists on men of affairs?" RR: "Oh, I think probably instant change. ... I think, Bill, the thing that happens is the belief that simply by electing a President or electing a governor, that suddenly all the things that the group that supported that individual wants changed in government will be changed. And it overlooks the fact that ... the great bulk of that government is unchanged--meaning the permanent structure, the permanent employees of government ... and they tend to think of an elected official as a temporary aberration, and they're going to go on doing things the way they had always intended to do them ..." Specifics include the welfare system, the withholding of income tax, relations between the states and the Federal Government--and why Ronald Reagan doesn't want to be Vice President.