Word: ladonna
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Senator George McGovern and Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine, all potential contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972. Harris, some Democrats said, had been the only politician on Capitol Hill who could breakfast with Humphrey, lunch with Lyndon Johnson and dine with the Bobby Kennedys. His wife LaDonna, who is half Irish and half Comanche Indian, frequently entertains small, select Washington dinner parties...
...University of Oklahoma law class, Harris has pretty well known where he wanted to go since, at age five, he led a horse around in circles to power a hay baler. He wanted to get an education and rise to the top. He married his Comanche Indian sweet heart, LaDonna Crawford, great-granddaughter of a medicine man named Hoahwah...
...gubernatorial primary, he won the remaining two years of Kerr's Senate seat by upsetting ex-Governor J. Howard Edmondson (who had appointed himself Senator after Kerr died) in another primary, then edging famed Oklahoma Football Coach Bud Wilkinson in the 1964 general election. Now he and LaDonna, who have three little Indians of their own, move in Washington's more rarefied social circles...