1976. they use all that late momentum from all of those late victories to steal the democratic nomination from jimmy carter at the convention. it was a long shot. he actually came close to pulling it off. with carter facing a challenge with ted kennedy, there wasn't room for anybody else. his political career kind of crumbled. he lost popularity in california. he worked with mother teresa. he studied zen buddism. he came back years later a changed man, a man forgotten by the political world, an outsider, something of a radical. he ran for president this time in 1982. this jerry brown had no patience at all for the political system, no patience for politicians like bill clinton. the whole system was corrupt, jerry brown. that was his message. he had no problem saying it to