A cordial relationship between two Democrats with different philosophies
Scott explains that as he was from the somewhat more moderate wing of the Democratic Party, his relations with the more conservative Governor Dan K. Moore were cordial but not close.
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Oral History Interview with Robert W. (Bob) Scott, February 4, 1998. Interview C-0336-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007) in the Southern Oral History Program Collection, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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- JACK FLEER:
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I know that in some subsequent situations, subsequent to your period of
service, governors have asked lieutenant governors to take on various
projects. Can you talk a little bit about your relationship with
Governor Moore, who was in the position at the time that you were
lieutenant governor?
- ROBERT W. (BOB) SCOTT:
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Our relationship was friendly, not close. We came from different
political wings of the party. Dan Moore, as it turns out, most of his
people supported Mel Broughton in the campaign in 1968 against me. And
that was natural, that was the conservative wing of the party that
Governor Moore came from, having defeated Richardson Pryer, who with
most of the people that I was identified with came
from the more moderate or liberal wing of the party. Our relationship
was cordial. He didn't shut me out, but nor did he really
include me in too much. I never felt uncomfortable or unwanted in that
sense. But he didn't ask me—except occasionally
his office would call and want to know, could I go attend some function
because the governor couldn't be there, but they felt like
somebody from the state at a high level ought to be there. And this was
particularly true in occasions out of state, when he didn't
feel like it was necessary for him to be there or his schedule
wouldn't permit it, so he would ask me to go.