Nash, Jere Carmichael, Gil
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Interview conducted by author Jere Nash with Gil Carmichael as research for Mississippi Politics: The Struggle for Power, 1976-2006. A Republican, Gil Carmichael unsuccessfully ran for a state senate seat in 1967; incumbent U.S. Senator James O. Eastland's seat in 1972; Mississipp governor in 1979; and Lieutenant Governor in 1983. Topics covered include his family; education; military service in World War II and Korea; his automobile dealership and real estate businesses; joining the Republican Party in Mississippi; Rubel Phillips; influence of election commissioners; Prentiss Walker; Charlie Sullivan; Republican National Convention in 1968; Richard Nixon; Ronald Reagan; Hurricane Camille redevelopment commission; James O. Eastland; school desegregation; James Meredith; Robert Clark; Charles Evers; Ellis Bodron; Walter Brown; Clark Reed; Haley Barbour; Spiro Agnew; appointment to Highway Safety Advisory Committee and the Department of Transportation; need for a new Mississippi Constitution; gun control issue; Leon Bramlett; Gerald Ford; Sonny Montgomery; and James Meredith.
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