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Interview no. | A-0099 |
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 | 30 March 1974 |
Interviewee | Carmichael, Gil. |
Interviewee occupation | Politicians |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer |
Bass, Jack. De Vries, Walter. |
Abstract | Background – born in 1927 and has deep roots in MS; college and then period with the Wall Street Journal; returns to LA and enters auto business; changes to Republican party in MS and calls himself an Òenlightened conservativeÓ; ran for the state senate twice and lost; beginnings of Republicanism in MS and the strategy for the future; views on Nixon, Harry Dent, and the frustration with CREEP in 1972; the problems due to the power of James Eastland; racial politics and states' rights; Watergate. |
Subject Topical |
Mississippi--Politics and government. Mississippi--Race relations. |
Subject Name |
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994. Republican Party (Miss.) |
Citation | Interview with Gil Carmichael by Jack Bass and Walter De Vries, 30 March 1974. A-0099 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. | A0099_Audio_1 |