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81. "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

82. "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

83. "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

84. "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

85. "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

86. "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

87. "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

88. "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

89. "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

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