Donald Livingston; Aide to Gov. Reagan
Donald G. Livingston, former director of programs and policies in Ronald Reagan’s gubernatorial Administration and later a member of California’s Little Hoover Commission, has died.
He was 53.
He died July 17 at the Hospital of the Good Samaritan in Los Angeles of AIDS.
Livingston had been named to the state Hoover Commission and the Board of Trustees of the California State University system by Reagan’s successor as governor, Edmund G. Brown Jr.
For many years, Livingston, a Republican, was director of public affairs for Carter Hawley Hale Stores Inc. in Los Angeles. He also lobbied for cable television companies and served on the board of the Performing Arts Council of the Music Center.
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