Topic: Edwin Edwards

Inside Buddy Roemer's unlikely White House run

Reuters US Online Report Politics News - 131 days ago
LITTLETON, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Most politicians would take it as a bad sign if they finished third in a re-election bid behind a former Ku Klux Klan leader and an opponent twice tried for racketeering.Not former Louisiana governor Buddy Roemer.Two ...

Correction: Obit-Volz story

San Francisco Chronicle - 364 days ago
0 . In a story on the death of former U.S. Attorney John Volz, who spearheaded high-profile corruption cases involving Louisiana Gov. Edwin ...

Quotes Uncovered: The Full Monty

Freakonomics - 698 days ago
Each week, I've been inviting readers to submit quotations whose origins they want me to try to trace, using my book, The Yale Book of Quotations, and my more recent research. The expression "The only way (I'll lose) is if ...

Something rotten in the state of Louisiana

Spectator, The London - 1195 days ago
I have mixed memories of New Orleans. I found myself being lunched in a dark corner of a restaurant by an adviser to fourterm Louisiana governor Edwin Edwards, who confidentially offered me a slice of the action in a gas pipeline project ...

Funeral for colorful La. sheriff

AP News - 1592 days ago
Hundreds Turn Out for Goodbye to Harry Lee, Colorful and Controversial La. SheriffThousands of people paid their respects Friday to longtime Jefferson Parish Sheriff Harry Lee, the popular, controversial Chinese-American lawman whose flag-draped casket was escorted from a suburban auditorium to the ...