Roy Vincent Harris oral history interviews, 1972 Aug. 10 and 20.

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Harris, Roy Vincent, 1895-1985,. Roy Vincent Harris oral history interviews, 1972 Aug. 10 and 20.

Roy Vincent Harris oral history interviews, 1972 Aug. 10 and 20.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38726990

The collection consists of oral history interviews with Roy Vincent Harris on August 10 and 20, 1972 in which he discusses Harris and E.D. Rivers in the Assembly; Rivers' 1928 campaign for governor; Rivers as Speaker of the House; financial problems of the campaign; Fred Wilson; Walter George; 1930 governor's race; Zell Miller's father; "Young Harris crowd"; 1936 governor's race; John Greer; Downing Musgrove; Charles Redwine; the three R's (Roosevelt, Russell and Rivers); the New Deal in Georgia; Minimum Foundation program; the highway department; seven month schooling; ALTO and the fight over the mental hospital in Milledgeville; Rivers' mistakes in office; financing programs; Rivers and Harris; Rivers' radio interests; Robert Patton; Rivers financial success in the media; political corruption; how Ellis Arnall and Carl Sanders made money as Governor; raising money during a campaign to avoid future graft; sales tax; raising money for Rivers programs; and Herman Talmadge and the sales tax. He also discusses Rivers' other campaigns; race as a political issue; the 1946 governor's race; raising money from farmers; the Arnall-Rivers split; factionalism in Georgia politics; Harris as a gubernatorial candidate; Harris-Arnall split over desegregation; Arnall's amendment to succeed himself; Eugene Talmadge; Jim Gillis; three-governor controversy; Herman Talmadge campaign for governor in 1948; repealing prohibition; Arnall and Rivers support M.E. Thompson in 1948; possible Talmadge-Thompson coalition; Herman Talmadge's drinking problem; Rivers' intolerance for liquor; Rivers' weakness for women; Lint Miller and the highway department; Jim Gillis; John Greer; Rivers' trial in Fulton County; Brick Blaylock; Dr. Hiram Evans; Lint Miller; Marvin Griffin and Roy Harris; Ernest Vandiver; political backstabbing; Ed Kelley and the Chicago machine; Georgia politics; Gene Cox; and Walter George and the wives and mistresses. Furthermore, he discusses pardons; parole cases; what a parole meant financially; bug racket (numbers lottery); gambling in Georgia; Rivers-Talmadge campaign money in 1936 and 1938; taking people to the polls; buying counties; grouping counties for campaigning; campaign espionage in the 1942 campaign, how Arnall won the 1942 election; the 1945 constitution; the succession amendment; Arnall's bitterness over defeat; campaign expenses; political conferences for campaign conferences; men and women; Rivers' national political aspirations; Rivers' honesty; Herman Talmadge's opinion of Rivers; Hubert Humphrey; Rivers' mistakes; pardons; making money in the Rivers administration; highway contractor's contributions; campaign money and favors; 1946 contributions to Talmadge campaign; 1966 senatorial race and campaign contributions; speaking for Talmadge in 1946; Talmadge supporters; and George Wallace.

4 audiotapes ; cassette.

Georgia State University