Word: treen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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During the runoff campaign against the second-place finisher, Republican home builder John Treen, Atwater sent messages from President Bush and Ronald Reagan urging Duke's defeat. This effort not only failed but apparently backfired. "We resent outsiders coming in trying to influence us," explained Guy Hinton, a third-generation resident of Metairie. Duke, a highly charged campaigner, defeated the stolid Treen by a mere 227 votes...
...Klux Klan. Now he wants a new one: Louisiana state legislator. Last month Duke, 38, finished first with 33% of the vote in a nonpartisan election for representative from Metairie, a white suburb of New Orleans. In a runoff this week he faces runner-up John Treen, 63, a local builder and the brother of former Governor David Treen. Duke denies he is a racist and says coyly that he supports "civil rights for all people." Duke, who says he heads an outfit called the National Association for the Advancement of White People, still has the same address and phone...
...does Roemer's triumph really signal a return to the clean but dull administration of Gov. Treen, who served for a term between Edwards' second and third...
...well, different. When a Federal official declared at a national Governors conference a few years ago that "it's not part of my job to lie to people," Louisiana Governor Edwin Edwards cracked: "It's a very big part of mine." During his race against then Governor David Treen in 1983, he joked that his opponent seemed worried that Edwards, if elected, might loot the Governor's mansion. Quipped Edwards: "If we don't get Treen out of office soon, there won't be any money left to steal." Louisianians hooted and elected Edwards with 62% of the vote...
Enormously popular, he was first elected in 1972, re-elected in 1975, and he would probably have won again in 1979, had he not been barred by state law from seeking a third consecutive term. Four years later, Edwards bragged that he could not lose to Treen unless he was "caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy." A riveting stump speaker who sprinkles his oratory with Cajun French, Edwards reputedly can film a 28-second campaign commercial in a single take without a script, a rehearsal or a stopwatch. He has run 15 times for public...