South Carolina Veterans Oral History / Subject: Dorn, William Jennings Bryan, 1916-2005 - Blacklight Search Results

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1. "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

2. "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

3. "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

4. "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

5. "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

6. "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

7. "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

8. "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

9. "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

10. "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