Charlotte Observer columnist Jack Betts recalled Bob Scott:
Scott was a lot of fun to cover. He was the first governor I covered after graduating from college — I still remember the long sideburns he sported shortly after taking office -- and later he chaired the Appalachian Regional Commission in Washington during Jimmy Carter's presidency. Scott liked a good joke and he loved ribbing his friends and his adversaries. Whenever I saw him he'd grin and drawl, "Well, here comes the coarser element."
He writes on This Old State that Scott was "somewhat more conservative than his father, but still liked to shake up the establishment and seemed to revel in firing darts at those in charge."
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