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Perkins:

Yes...the same type? I don't know if he was the same type, I didn't know him well enough. I don't know how I happened to know Pritchard so well, but I saw him different places. He knew another set, as well as the Byrnes political set.

But you know, Byrnes was a very gay and amusing man. I don't know of any human creature I'd rather go out to a dinner party with than Byrnes. If he was at the dinner party, it was just lovely. Oh, he was such fun, and he had such funny stories to tell and such funny songs to sing, and had a good voice, and he would give forth. You know - oh, charming!

Now he wouldn't do this everywhere. But I remember going to Justice Jackson's house. He was at that dinner. It wasn't a very large dinner, but there were some people outside the Court. There were fifteen or twenty people there.

He came to my house once and did the same thing - I mean, he told stories, and he was a very charming, delightful person socially. That was the “broth of the boy” stuff, you know.

Q:

My view of Byrnes - I cannot erase it as the view I got of him on television during the late unpleasantness in 1952, and he was anything but a broth of a boy during that. Did you happen to see it?





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