Nash and Taggart Collection

Jere Nash Interview with Brad Dye

Identifier

NT_interview_23

Creation Date

12-21-2004

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Description

Interview conducted by author Jere Nash with Brad Dye in the process of writing Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. Dye served three four-year terms as Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi from 1980 to 192. Topics covered included Dye's service in the state senate; Carroll Gartin; Paul B. Johnson Jr.; Dye as Lieutenant Governor and leader of the state senate; rules changes for the senate; William Winter; Buddy Newman; gaming legislation to allow casinos in the state; Ellis Bodron; education reform legislation; Dye's involvement with passing legislation; separation of powers legislation in 1984; budget commission; 1987 highway legislation; Medicaid; greater difficulty in passing legislation through the House; Bill Allain and Ray Mabus as governors; Ross Barnett; segregation; integration of the University of Mississippi as a pivotal moment; J.P. Coleman; James O. Eastland and John Stennis; legalizing alcohol; Paul B. Johnson Jr.'s decision to run for lieutenant governor in 1959; Dye's appointment to the senate appropriations committee and the education committee; traveling up to Oxford with Governor Ross Barnett to prevent James Meredith from registering; Bill Waller; Eastland and federal judicial appointments in general and specifically Harold Cox and Thurgood Marshall; Kennedy family and Eastland; and the death of Jimmie Walker.

Subject Headings (Library of Congress)

Dye, Brad; Gartin, Carroll; Mississippi. Legislature. Senate; Johnson, Paul B., 1916-1985; Winter, William F.; Newman, Buddy; Gambling -- Law and legislation; Bodron, Ellis; Educational law and legislation; Separation of powers; Roads -- Mississippi; Medicaid -- Mississippi; Mississippi. Legislature. House; Allain, Bill; Mabus, Ray, 1948-; Barnett, Ross R. (Ross Robert), 1898-1987; College integration -- Mississippi -- Oxford; University of Mississippi -- Riot, September 30, 1962; Coleman, J. P. (James Plemon), 1914-1991; Eastland, James O. (James Oliver), 1904-1986; Stennis, John C. (John Cornelius), 1901-1995; Alcohol -- Law and legislation -- Mississippi; Waller, Bill; Marshall, Thurgood, 1908-1993; Cox, W. Harold (William Harold), b. 1901; Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963; United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary;

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: 10073_BradDye_2004Dec21; the author's original, unofficial transcript is available here, but users should note that spelling and accuracy is not assured

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