- Collection:
- Georgia Political Papers and Oral History Program
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Paul Coverdell, 1998 February 7
- Creator:
- Coverdell, Paul Douglas, 1939-2000
- Contributor to Resource:
- Steely, Mel
University of West Georgia. Georgia Political Papers and Oral History Program - Publisher:
- Carrollton, Ga. : University of West Georgia Special Collections in association with the Digital Library of Georgia
- Date of Original:
- 1998-02-07
- Subject:
- Georgia--Politics and government--1865-1950
Georgia--Politics and government--1951-
Governors--Georgia
Legislators--Georgia
China
Dixiecrat
Ft. Bliss
Ft. Bragg
Long Range Planning Committee
Okinawa
Vietnam
Augusta, Ga
Bentley, Jimmy
Calloway, Bo
Campbell, Phil
Cook, Rodney
Cooper, Fred
Deal, Nathan
DeKalb County (Ga.)
Eisenhower, Dwight D
Fowler, Al
Gingrich, Newt
Hardy, Jack
Howard, Doug
Irvin, Bob
Kennedy, J. F.
Lender, John
Levins, Jarvis
Mattingly, Mack
Patton, Matt
Reagan, Ronald
Savage, John
Shaw, Bob
Snodgrass, Robert
Thrower, Randolph - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
sound recordings - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
audio/ogg - Description:
- Paul Coverdell was born in Des Moines, Iowa in 1939. He moved to Atlanta after he got out of the army in the mid-1960s. Coverdell ran for a Georgia senate seat representing north Fulton County in 1970. He served in the state senate for the next eighteen years, becoming the leader of the Senate Republicans. While in the Senate, Coverdell was appointed to the committees on foreign relations, agriculture and small business. In 1989, he was named director of the Peace Corps by President Bush. Coverdell held this position until 1991. From 1992 until 2000, Coverdell was a United States Senator, serving on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Agriculture Committee, Small Business Committee, and the Senate Finance Committee. Coverdell sponsored several pieces of legislation that enabled many Americans to fund their children's college education.; Interviewed by Mel Steely on February 7, 1988 at an unknown location.; The first 45 seconds of the interview are inaudible. Coverdell briefly talks about the Dixiecrats and how their loss affected the Republican Party in state politics. Coverdell talks briefly of how he came to be involved in politics. He talks about the long range planning committee that he, Newt Gingrich and Mack Mattingly started in 1975 and how it came to increase Republican influence in the state.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/id:uwg_phc_coverdell19980207
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/uwg/phc/do:coverdell19980207
- Language:
- eng
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: [interview title], Georgia Political Papers and Oral History Program oral history interviews. Annie Belle Weaver Special Collections, Irvine Sullivan Ingram Library, University of West Georgia
- Extent:
- 1 interview (circa 57 mins.)
- Original Collection:
- Georgia Political Papers and Oral History Program oral history interviews. Annie Belle Weaver Special Collections, Irvine Sullivan Ingram Library, State University of West Georgia
- Holding Institution:
- University of West Georgia. Special Collections
- Rights:
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