Media Type: Audio / Subject: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005

1. "You will see in the media packaged political candidates, packaged like breakfast cereal, at a fantastic cost to somebody"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

2. "You made it possible for me to serve in Washington during the most critical history of the world"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

3. "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

4. "Yes, I am a candidate for governor"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

5. "What would you do if the lights went out?"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

6. "What do you want to do when you grow up? I immediately replied, Make laws for the people"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

7. "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

8. "We were fighting for freedom. And yes, our men and women fought over there in all of our wars to keep the tide of war from the shores of this great county"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

9. "We helped get Fort Jackson a permanent base"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

10. "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

11. "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

12. "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

13. "There are several things that need to be done in South Carolina"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

14. "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

15. "The only force that can overcome evil and prevent the horrors of war-blood-filth is a strong America, strong military, strong morally, strong spiritually, strong educationally and this is the great challenge before you and before me"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

16. "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

17. "The Constitution of this country guarantees us the right to bear arms"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

18. "Thank you, Sheriff"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

19. "Thank you, Jennings, you know, my son and I like your name"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

20. "So why join the American Legion?"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

21. "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

22. "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

23. "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

24. "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

25. "My friends, one of the great challenges of our time is to use freedom, is to know something about freedom, to exercise it, crank it up and grease it, and put some gasoline in it, oil it, knock the rust off it and use it"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

26. "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

27. "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

28. "I'm not going to quote the Bible tonight, I learned better than that a long time ago"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

29. "I will devote every hour of the next four years to you, the people of South Carolina"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

30. "I was told that in a county not far from here that the biggest single industry was welfare"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

31. "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

32. "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

33. "I was accused, for the first time in a number of years, of having any further political ambition"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

34. "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

35. "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

36. "I had forgotten but he knew that William Jennings Bryan in Florida was just like St. Patrick in Ireland or Robert E. Lee in Virginia"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

37. "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

38. "I am the legal, constituted nominee of the Democratic Party of South Carolina for governor"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

39. "I am just plain Bryan Dorn"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

40. "I am a farmer"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

41. "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

42. "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

43. "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

44. "Everywhere I go, I try to leave a little bit of optimism, boost people up but quite frankly we're not in the best shape in the world"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

45. "Everyday, I have someone come up to me and say, 'name my name,'"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

46. "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

47. "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

48. "Education, of course, is one of the great questions before our state"

Creator:: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005
Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

49. "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

50. "Bryan Dorn: Won't You Please Come Home"

Collection:: William Jennings Bryan Dorn: In His Own Words
Institution:: University of South Carolina. South Carolina Political Collections

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