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...Senate seat for J. Benneff Johnston Jr., 40, a Shreveport lawyer and former state senator. His good fortune occurred in July after Senator Allen J. Ellender died suddenly at 81. Johnston, who had already filed as Ellender's Democratic primary opponent, easily won the nomination. Former Governor John McKeithen, 54, attempted to become a late-starting Democratic candidate but was barred by the party. McKeithen waged an emotional campaign as an independent. But Johnston neatly sloughed off his charges that he was a "country club kid" to defeat "Big John" McKeithen and two other candidates...
Lights Out. Louisiana's Democratic Governor John McKeithen spoke for many: "My conversations with my state's delegation lead me to believe that our chances of getting federal revenue sharing without strings attached are virtually nil." McKeithen's is no ordinary congressional delegation: it includes House Majority Leader Hale Boggs and Mills' Senate counterpart, Russell Long, chairman of the Finance Committee! Pennsylvania's Milton Shapp, also a Democrat, attacked the Nixon plan for offering neither short-term nor long-term solutions to his state's problems. Agnew in turn taxed Shapp with eroding...
...Chevron case may reverberate in Washington for other reasons. In his crusade against polluters, Hickel has often seemed to ignore the Nixon Administration's "Southern Strategy." Governor John McKeithen of Louisiana, a state that derives about 40% of its revenues from oil drilling, petitioned the Secretary to be lenient with the oil companies-in vain. Hickel has also temporarily blocked construction of a West German chemical plant in South Carolina, and the controversial jetport near the Everglades National Park in Florida. In every instance, Hickel justifies his action as he did last week in speaking of the oil incidents...
...will not allow my children to be bused and treated like cattle," insisted Louisiana Governor John McKeithen in a speech before the state school-board association. Thousands of white parents agree-except when it comes to busing that promotes school segregation...
...anti-integration forces. Georgia's Governor Lester Maddox even told schoolchildren not to get on buses that would take them to integrated schools and that "somebody ought to let the air out of them [the tires] and steal them [the buses]." He and Louisiana's John McKeithen, Alabama's Albert Brewer and Mississippi's John Bell Williams met in Mobile, announced that they would go to Washington to try to "save our public schools." The issue is being inflamed by George Wallace, who has been attending anti-integration rallies in his drive to unseat Brewer this...