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Interview no. | A-0054 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | A.1. Southern Politics: Bass-DeVries Interviews |
Project description | Interviews, 1973-1975, conducted by Jack Solomon Bass and Walter De Vries with political leaders, journalists, editors, party officials, political scientists, campaign directors, union officials, and civil rights leaders from Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, as part of a study of politics in the South, 1945-1974. |
Date | 21 May 1974 |
Interviewee | Horner, Mallory. |
Interviewee occupation | Legislators |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer |
Bass, Jack. De Vries, Walter. |
Abstract | Comparisons of Florida legislature 20 years ago and today; reforms since 1967 and need of further reforms; the Florida legislative ombudsman program; needed reforms in the executive branch of the Florida state government; question of the impetus for reform deriving from reapportionment versus younger membership in the legislature since the end of the second World War; upcoming Florida elections; Horne’s race for US Senate and possibilities of Askew’s reelection; Horne’s dislike of absolute power in any branch of government; characterization of Askew as governor and political candidate; type of legislator in Florida today. |
Subject Topical | Florida--Politics and government. |
Subject Name | Askew, Reubin O'D., 1928- |
Citation | Interview with Mallory Horner by Jack Bass and Walter De Vries, 21 May 1974. A-0054 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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Interview no. | A0054_Audio_1 |