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1. "You just did not have in 1946 any black people participating in the primary"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

2. "Well here I was two years in the House and I guess I jumped the traces, and got into the race for the United States Senate"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

3. "This was October '45, well there was a political campaign coming up in '46"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

4. "They selected him and it was a beautiful selection. He lived in my district, yet he sorta personally disliked Maybank so therefore he could do with us some sincerity; he could lambaste Maybank"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

5. "There was a lot of places in Germany that manufactured beer that was untouched by the bombing"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

6. "Then we didn't have any Republican opposition. That's another thing Professor, that you didn't have to worry about that day and time. You'd receive the Democratic nomination in the primary and was tantamount they always said to the election"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

7. "The central figure of that time in Washington was President Harry Truman"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

8. "That case destroyed the white primary"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

9. "So this seemed like a new day, a new crowd, and the media covered us"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

10. "One of 7 brothers to serve in the armed forces of the United States of America, boy, you can imagine that kind of spiel on the stump"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

11. "My observation was that most of them I came into contact with were very bitter against England and America for breaking up their farms, bombing everything"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

12. "My idea simply was to ensure the defense of western Europe, to tell them no, we aren't going to let Communism come a foot further"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

13. "It's just a plain question of votes. The black people had been disenfranchised and they couldn't vote"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

14. "It indicated to me how foolish the French were to think you could build a stationary, static line, and secure a nation's future for all time"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

15. "In your political science classes it's difficult for 'em to understand that time and circumstance determines political outcome or outcome of a political race more than anything else. You cannot foresee intangible factors developing like it did in that race"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

16. "If you couldn't speak, you better stay out of the race for governor, senator, or congress"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

17. "I was in opposition to these lend-leases, these give aways by the United States government"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

18. "I was impressed with Versailles, not only the architecture, which amazed me every time; I used to ramble around over the palace everyday when I got through with my little work at the radio van"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

19. "I was going to depend on that campaign on what pulled me through on all my campaigns, no organization, no money, but on the stump"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

20. "I remember coming home was kind of a disappointment. I'd packed everything up and gone home and nobody was there. Mother and Daddy had gone."

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

21. "I just have to admit it, I was a fanatic on air power"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

22. "I don't remember doing much of anything, I didn't even file for an office until I got to Washington and then they didn't have an office"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

23. "Here was these dresses, 20,000 girls, just passing back and forth, you know the GI's mouths just flew open"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

24. "Here was the Russian ambassador to the United Nations callin' lil' ol' Dorn the number one warmonger of the United States of America"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

25. "He'd say now little boy blue, come blow your horn, and the people would all laugh of course this was a kind of mockery. It was sort of difficult to overcome to start out following all that carrying on"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

26. "Every night we could hear George Patton shelling the forts at Metz"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

27. "England lived better then, during the War, this was a personal observation and the books I guess would deny that, but to hell with that, I know what I am talking about. They lived better than they ever lived the people told me, I was a GI"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

28. "Dorn this is the time, you'd better run"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

29. "But I had to overcome some hurdles-one was the most difficult thing I have ever been confronted with politically"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

30. "And this is the first time I remember meeting a fella by the name of John F. Kennedy"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

31. "And on the night that VE Day was announced everybody in the ETO, European Theater of Operations, went wild. It was more dangerous to be out that night then it would be in combat-bullets flying everywhere, everyone shooting off their guns"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

32. "And lo and behold, this committee received the most important piece of legislation of the 80th Congress, perhaps one of the 2 or 3 most important bills in Congress since World War II, the unification of the armed forces"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

33. "Again I want to place some emphasis on the factualism and the fact that South Carolina politics in that day and even today to a great extent is personalized"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

34. "A GI is a funny individual, some people think they don't know much but they know everything"

Creator:

Romine, Ron

Collection:

William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words

Institution:

University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections