Nash and Taggart Collection

Jere Nash and Andy Taggart Interview with Thad Cochran

Identifier

NT_interview_16

Creation Date

11-11-2005

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Description

Interview conducted by author Jere Nash with U.S. Senator Thad Cochran as research for Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Topics covered include Cochran's decision to run as a Republican in the 1972 congressional race; Richard Nixon; Walter Brown; helping on an Ellis Bodron campaign; Charles Evers and Muhammed Ali; participation in Nixon's 1968 campaign; Gerald Ford's 1976 presidential campaign in Mississippi; Trent Lott; 1978 senate race; Bill Waller and 1976 senate race; James O. Eastland; Charles Pickering; Haley Barbour; Jon Hinson; working with Senator John Stennis; 1984 senate race against William Winter; John Bell Williams; Senate Majority Leader race against Lott; 1962 integration riot at the University of Mississippi; Ross Barnett; Senate Appropriations Committee; Jamie Whitten; and Jefferson Davis's senate desk.

Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

Cochran, Thad; Political campaigns -- Mississippi; Elections -- Mississippi; Republican Party (Miss.); Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994; Brown, Walter; Bodron, Ellis; Evers, Charles, 1922-; Ali, Muhammad, 1942-; Ford, Gerald R., 1913-2006; Lott, Trent, 1941-; Waller, Bill; Eastland, James O. (James Oliver), 1904-1986; Pickering, Charles; Barbour, Haley, 1947-; Hinson, Jon; Stennis, John C. (John Cornelius), 1901-1995; Winter, William F.; Williams, John Bell, 1918-1983; United States. Congress. Senate -- Majority leaders; University of Mississippi -- Riot, Sept. 30, 1962; College integration -- Mississippi -- Oxford; Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898-1987; United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations; Whitten, Jamie L.; Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889;

Relational Format

audio recording

Extent

1900-01-00

Original Format

born digital audio

Original Collection

Nash and Taggart Collection, Archives and Special Collections, University of Mississippi Libraries

Rights

This media file is owned by the copyright holder and may not be reproduced, re-posted, captured or saved. Due to copyright concerns, the recordings in this collection can only be accessed by arrangement with the Department of Archives and Special Collections.

Comments

original file name: 10100_ThadCochran_2005Nov11_1h36min

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