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During his tenure as governor, Roemer has had to confront the legislature on several controversial issues, including abortion, capital punishment and free speech. In each case, Roemer said, he had "to examine personal values and beliefs like nothing else...
Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer, who is among the Democratic Party's more conservative members, made a hit in Harvard's liberal boutique last night by recounting his many bouts with the state's predominantly rightwing legislature...
During an hour-long speech at the Kennedy School of Government, Roemer spoke with pride of the 45 vetoes he has issued in the last three years...
...from people who will not confess their preference to pollsters. This was the case in his 1989 victory, and pollster Susan Howell says Duke "flies below radar." But as he becomes more acceptable, more familiar on the scene, more identified with nonracist politics (like his defeat of Governor Buddy Roemer's tax increase), there is less reason for voters to hide their support...
There was a certain exhilaration in the scurry and posturing of special interests, ringed around the central issue of abortion, but there was also concern. One of Washington's talented lawyers, Roemer McPhee, recalled how, as a young attorney in Dwight Eisenhower's White House, he harbored a mild doubt when Ike in 1956 nominated Democrat William Brennan, a practicing liberal. But McPhee, from New Jersey too, knew that Brennan was a thoughtful and decent man. Brennan was confirmed with hardly a ripple...