COMPLETING BUDDING RETURNED HOME TO START HIS OWN BUSINESS.

IN 1973 SERVED AS A A DELEGATE TO THE CONVENTION.

ELECT TODAY THE US CONGRESS IN 19th 80.

>>: I FIRST HAD THE OPPORTUNITY OF KNOWING BUDDY ROEMER COME I CAME TO THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES BACK IN NA1982.

HE WAS ALREADY FOR HIS WHIT HIS HUMOR AND HUZ INCREDIBLE LEDGE SLAYSIVE ACCOMPLISHMENTS.

>>: HE WAS INTERESTINGLY THE FIRST MEMBER OF CONGRESS TO INTRODUCE LEGISLATIONS THAT CALLED FOR SANCTIONS ON SOUTH SH AFRICA.

>>: SHE WANTED TO SERVE THE PEOPLE.

YOU MIX ALL THAT TOGETHER WITH THE BRAINS THAT'S A FOR MIDDABLE COMBINATION.

>>: DEFYING LONG ODDS BUDDY RAN FOR GOVERNOR IN 1987 AND LED HIS ROEMER REVOLUTION ALL THE WAY TO THE GOVERNORS MANSION.

>>: WE HAD MORE PROBLEMS THAN YOU COULD SHAKE A STICK AT.

WE HAD A BANKRUPTED STATE, ONE THAT HAD NOT DEALT WITH ISSUES STROOG DO WITH THE ENVIRONMENT, HAVING TO DO WITH EDUCATION, HAVING TO DO WITH ETHICS, WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND IN THE FIRST HUNDRED DAYS OF HIS ADMINISTRATION MORE THINGS WERE DONE MORE THINGS WERE PASSED ON A BROADER SPECTRUM THAN ANY GOVERNOR BEFORE OR SINCE.

>>: AS GOVERNOR HE PUSHED THROUGH INCREASED TEACHER PAY AND STRENGTHENED THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY SPEER MORE TOXX POLLUTION THAN EPA MEASURES IT THAN ANY OTHER STATE.

OVER THE FOUR YEARS WE WERE IN OFFICE WE CUT IT IN HALF.

THAT'S NEVER BEEN DONE IN THE UNITED STATES BEFORE.

>>: GOVERNOR ROME RR WAS ALSO TILE TOUGHER FINANCE LAWS.

>>: I THINK A DRASTIC IMPACT THE PRECURRER TO THE ETHICS MOVEMENT WE HAD IN THE STATE.

>>: BUDSY A VISIONARY.

A VISION OF LOUISIANA OUGHT TO BE THE BRAINS TO CARRY IT OUT AND THE CURTOOJ DO SO.

>>: THOU HE BEGAN HIS DOVENER AS A DEM GRAT HE DEFT IT HAS REREPUBLICAN.

BANKING AND REAL ESTATE RETIREMENT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.

GOVERNOR ROAM ROEMER ALSO INCLUDING MEDICAL MISSION TO SOUTH AMERICA WITH HIS WIFE SCARLET WHO SAERAGESTERRED NURSE.

>>: HE OBVIOUSLY THOUGHT I'M HERE ON THIS EARTH TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE AND HE PUTTED HIMSELF IN THE POSITION WHERE HE COULD MAKE THAT DIFFERENCE.

>>: GOVERNOR BUDDY ROEMER RR MOVING DECK TADES FORWARD AS PUBLIC SERVICE AND PRIVATE CITIZEN.

>>: GOVERNOR BUDDY ROEMER.

>>: THANK YOU.

I KNEW I MIGHT GET EMOTIONAL SO I WRITE WROTEIT OUT RIGHT QUICK Y. WANTO THANK LBP AND BETH COURTNEY FOR INCLUDING ME WITH SUCH A WONDERFUL GROUPS OF HONOREES.

WOW.

LOUISIANA IS AN AWESOME PLACE OF HOPE AND HARD WORK AND FAMILY.

CREAATIVITY AND HONOR AND SACRIFICE AND HAPPINESS.

AND LOVE.

THERE ARE MANY, MANY GOOD AND GREAT PLACES ON EARTH, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHERE IS BETTER THAN RIGHT HERE IN LOUISIANA.

EVERYWHERE THAT SCARLET AND I GO IN THE WORLD SOMEONE ALWAYS STOPS US.

AND THEY SAY, DIDN'T YOU USED TO BE BUDDY ROEMER.

I SAY YEP, BUT NOT ANYMORE.

AND IMMEDIATELY NEW YORK, BELGIUM, WHEN EVER WE ARE IMMEDIATELY THEY START TALKING ABOUT LOUISIANA HOW MUCH MAY HOW MUCH THEY ARE COMING BACK SOME DAY AS SOON AS THEY CAN FINE WORK.

THOU PROMISE THAT LURED THEM AWAY WAS SHORT TERM SOMEHOW SMALLER THEY HAD HOPED AND THEY WERE THE HAPPIEST IN LOUISIANA.

LOUISIANA IS THE LEGEND, NOT ME I WAS JUST LUCKY ENOUGH TO BE BORN HERE.

I DISCOVERED WHEN I RAN FOR GOVERNOR THE FIRST TIME THAT LOUISIANA WAS ACTUALLY THREE STATES.

TOUGH TO BE GOVERNOR ONE AND POSSIBLE TO BE GOVERNOR THREE.

I USE TODAY BE WILLISH SIZE.

ITS NORTH LOUISIANA, SOUTH LOUISIANA AND NEW ORLEANS AND I'M PART OF THAT TRIBAL THEME.

I MEAN I COUNTED THAT THERE ARE THREE NORTH LOUISIANA BOYS HERE TODAY OUT OF THE FIVE.

SO THERE YOU GO.

MY GRAND FATHER HE LIVED IN BURBON STREET IN NEW ORLEANS HAD A LITTLE COMPANY CALLED WALKER ROEMER HE HAD THE COW ON THE INTEREST HE'S DEAD NOW.

HIS ONLY SON CHARLES ROEMER THE SECOND MY FATHER AND WE LIVED IN NORTH LOUISIANA SO GROWING UP WITH MY GRAND DADDY IN NEW ORLEANS AND MY DAD IN NORTH LOUISIANA I KNEW THERE WERE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH.

BUT UNTIL YOU RUN FOR GOVERNOR YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW DEEP THE TRIBAL INSTINKS RUN.

I'M RUN FORKING GOVERNOR AS A YOUNG CONGRESSMAN FROM NORTH LOUISIANA I'M THIRD SOMETHING, MAN WE CAN DO THIS.

I HAD NO CHANCE.

BUT I DIDN'T KNOW THAT AND I'M GIVING A SPEECH OUT DOORS IN ONE OF IT HIGH SCHOOL STADIUM IN SHREVEPORT AND A HUGE CROWD HAD COME OUT TO SEE ME AND THEY WERE GETTING INTO IT.

YOU KNOW I WAS TALKING AGAINST THE GOODOLE BOY NETWORK WHICH I HATE AND ALL THOSE THINGS.

HAMMERING THE CROWD WAS INTO IT AND FINALLY SOME GUY SAID I'M WITH YOU BUDDY WE'RE GOING TO WIN WE'RE GOING TO TAKE OVER THE CAPITAL.

AUSTIN HERE WE COME.

I SAID NO.

FRANK, ITS BATON ROUGE MAN.

HE SAID ALL RIGHT.

OVER MY TIME ON EARTH AS A BUSINESSMAN AND A POLITICIAN NOW AS A BUSINESS MAN AGAIN I REALIZE THE WORLD HAS BECOME SMALLER AND MORE CHALLENGING.

AND THAT THE ONLY WAY WE CAN WIN AS A STATE NOW LISTEN TO ME, IS TO BE ONE STATE.

THE ONLY WAY WE'LL BRING OUR KIDS HOME IS TO UNIT, BUILD A TEAM AND FORM NOT THREE STATES, BUT ONE.

WORKING TOGETHER FOR OPPORTUNITY FOR REUNION, FOR COMMON GOOD.

KEEP OUR REGIONAL UNIQUENESS.

I LIKE THAT.

BUT ANSWER THE DEBATE AND THE FESTIVALS ARE OVER, LET'S FORM ONE TEAM.

ONE STATE.

ONE PURPOSE.

LEADERSHIP IS TOO PRECIOUS GREAT TALENT TOO RARE RESOURCES TOO LIMITED COMPETITION IS TOO DEDICATED.

EVERY CHILD IS TOO VALUABLE FOR US TO DILUTE OUR FUTURE BY TRYING TO COVER THREE STATES RATHER THAN ONE.

TONIGHT I ESPECIALLY THANK LPB, A LIVING EXAMPLE OVERTIME OF PULLING A STATE TOGETHER.

FEWER THAN A HUNDRED MEN AND WOMAN COMMUNITY THROUGHOUT OUR STATE.

THEY BRING GREAT TEACHERS TO EVERY NOOK AND CRANNY THEY COVER ALL SOCIAL AND POLITICAL AND CULTURAL EVENTS.

WE WOULD BE A LESSER PLACE WITHOUT IT.

LET ME CLOSE BY THANKING THOSE WHO GOT ME HERE.

I AM THEM.

AND I THANK THEM.

PARTICULARLY MY MOTHER AND FATHER ADLINE AND BUD ROEMER STILL ALIVE AND LIVING ON A PLANTATION 10 MILES OUTSIDE OF OF THE CITY ON COTTON AND CATTLE FARM.

THEY'RE 87, 86 AND FRAIJAL IN HEALTH OR THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN HERE TONIGHT.

GROWING UP ON THAT FORM IN THE FIFTIES WITH THREE SISTERS MARGARET, MULENT A, MELANIE AND A BROTHER DANNY AND HORSE DOGS AND CATTLE AND HOME SCHOOLING IN THE SUMMERS AND HARD WORK AND BAILS BASEBALL I LOVE BASEBALL AND BOOKS AND HARD WORK AND NO TELEVISION AND HARD WORK.

IT WAS A MAGICAL TIME BEYOND YOUR ABILITY TO UNDERSTAND.

WE DEBATED THE THREAT AND PROMISE OF SPUD NICK AT THE DINNER TABLE AT NIGHT.

WE HEARD JOHN KENNEDY IN 1956 RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT ON THE RADIO FOR DEMOCRATIC INTENTION HE LOST BUT WE KNEW HE WAS OUR MAN.

WE TALKED OUR WAY THROUGH THE FIFTIES THE HOME FAMILY SEATING AT THE SUPPER TABLE DISCUSSING EVOLUTION AND REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS AND EDUCATION IN AMERICA.

IT WAS A TIME OF GREAT TENSION IN THE SOUTH.

WITH CIVIL UNREST STIRRING AS SEGREGATION STRUTTERRED ACROSS OUR LAND.

THE COURAGE OF MY FATHER WHO REFUSED TO BE ONE OF THE RACIST HE SAID HE THOUGHT IT WAS A CRIME FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO ENFORCE PREJUDICE RATHER THAN FIGHT IT.

MOST PEOPLE IN OUR COMMUNITY TREATED DAD WITH RESPECT BUT HE WAS SPAT ON, HAD FIST FIGHTS AND A CROSS BURDEN IN OUR FIRST YARD MORE THAN ONCE.

HE WOULD NOT BACK DOWN.

HE TAUGHT US TO BY CONSERVATIVE IN OUR MONEY AFFAIRS.

AND TO BE LIBERABLE IN OUR OPPORTUNITIES WITH PEOPLE.

MOM GAVE US LOVE AND THE GIFT OF READING.

LONG BEFORE WE WENT TO A CLASSROOM.

ITS A GIFT THAT I USE EVERY DAY SO EVERYTHING I AM I OWE TO MOM AND DAD.

AND ON BEHALF OF MARGARET AND MELINDA AND MELANIE AND DANNY I SAY THANK YOU.

AND FINALLY TO MY BEAUTIFUL WIFE SCARLET AND MY KIDS CAROLINE AND HER HUSBAND JOHN AND MY GRAND SONOEN, CHAD AND HIS WIFE TINA AND MY TWO GRAND CHILDREN NAMED AFTER MY MOTHER AND FATHER ADLINE THE SECOND AND CHARLES THE FIFTH.

AND TO MY LAST CHILD THE INFAMOUS DAKOTA I SAY THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME REASON TO HOPE AND WORK AND TO STAY IN THE FIGHT FOR A BETTER STATE, A BETTER COUNTRY AND A BELLEDDER BETTER WORLD.

THAT FIGHT IS FORO PROUD OF EACH AND EVERY ONE.

PARTICULARLY THANKS TO SCARLET FOR HER MARRIAGE TO ME.

MY KIDS AND GRAND KIDS DID NOT HAVE A CHOICE.

SCARLET WAS A VOLUNTEER.

I HAD BEEN MARRIED TWICE BEFORE TO TWO REALLY GOOD WOMAN COOKIE AT THE AGE OF 19 FOR TEN YEARS.

WITH TWO CHILDREN CAROLINE AND CHAZ.

AND PATTY AT THE AGE OF 30 FOR 15 YEARS AND ONE CHILD DAKOTA.

BOTH COOKIE AND PATTY ARE DOING WELL AND REMAIN FRIENDS OF MINE AND REMAIN MEMBERS OF OUR EXTENDED FAMILY AND I WANT TO THANK THEM FOR ALL THEY'VE MEANT TO ME.

I OFTEN WONDER WHAT HAPPENED TO POSE MARRIAGES.

BUT SCARLET REMINES ME THAT THE ONLY COMMON THING ABOUT BOTH MARRIAGES WAS ME.

SHE SAYS THAT MIGHT BE A CLUE.

SCARLET GOT TWO DEGREE FROM LSU AS A NURSE AND P YAWNY PLAYER AND MADE A DECISION THAT HELPED ME LIVE MY LIFE.

THANK YOU HONE.

A LEGEND I DON'T THINK SO BUT LUCKY, YOU BET.

>>: OUR 2010 LOUISIANA LEGEND.

>>: HELLO I'M BETH COURTNEY WELCOME TO LOUISIANA LEDGENS CHARLES E BUDDY ROEMER FORMER INTELLECTUAL MAVERICK TRADES THAT CUT BOTH WAYS DURING POLITICAL LIFE ENDURING HIM TO VOTERS AND ALIATING HIM POLITICIAN.

ROEMER LOVE OF BOOK AND THE WORLD OF IDEAS SHOULD MAKE THIS A LIVELY CONVERSATION AND WELCOME GOVERNOR ROEMER.

>>: THANK YOU BETH.

>>: TERRIFIC BEING WITH YOU.

YOU KNOW I HAVE KNOWN YOU A LONG TIME YOU GREW UP IN NORTH LOUISIANA IN BOSSIER PARISH AND SCAPEENA PLANTATIONISM WHAT WAS IT LIKE GROWING UP THERE AS A YOUNG BOY?

>>: IT WAS UNBELIEVABLE.

IT WAS LIKE A DIFFERENT TIME.

I KNOW I'M OLD ENOUGH NOW I'M 66 TO, IT WAS ANOTHER TIME.

BUT PSYCHOLOGICALLY IT WAS THE FIFTIES, IT WAS A FARM.

I HAD A BROTHER AND THREE SISTERS FIVE KIDS WE WORKED.

WE LITERALLY WORKED EVERY DAY.

BEFORE SCHOOL WE FED ANIMALS.

WHEN WE CAME HOME AFTER SCHOOL WE WENT TO PUBLIC SCIENL BOSSIER CITY ABOUT 10 MILES AWAY WHEN WE GOT HOME IN THE AFTERNOON WE WORKED TILL NIGHT FALL WITH OUR HORSES WITH OUR CATTLE WITH OUR CROPSISM MY FATHER BELIEVED IN THE POWER OF HARD WORK AND WE KNEW UP THAT WAY.

NOW PEOPLE SAY I'M A WORK AHAULIC I WONDER WHEN I GET THAT FROM.

YOU BREW UP ON A FARM.

IT HELPED ME THOU CAUSE I DECIDED THAT I DIDN'T HAVE WHAT IT TOOK TO BE A GREAT FARMER.

I DIDN'T HAVE SEVEN DAYS 14 HOURS A DAY IN ME.

I DIDN'T, I CANNOT BE DEPENDENT ON WHETHER IT WAS RAIN OR NOT.

I COULDN'T BE DEPENDENT ON THE TEMPERATURE IN AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER.

BUT I LEARNED SO MUCH.

I GREW UP WITH A FAMILY THAT WAS CLOSE.

MY FURTHER AND FATHER ARE STILL MARRIED AFTER ALL THESE YEARS.

THEY STILL LIVE IN THE SAME HOUSE ON THE SAME FARM.

SO I GET BACK TO SHREVEPORT IN BOSSIER EVERY WEEK OR TWO WEEKS AT THE LONGEST.

AND ITS LIKE GOING HOME AGAIN.

>>: YOUR FIRST ELECTED POSITION I THINK CORRECT THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.

>>: I WAS ELECTED IN 1972 AND SERVED IN 73 AND THE FIRST PART OF 74.

WHEN UNDER EDWARDS LEADERSHIP WE BROUGHT THAT TO A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE AND PASSED IT.

I WAS A NONLAWYER WHICH I STILL PROUDLY AM.

AND WAS ONE OF THE FEW NONLAWYERS IN THAT CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTIONISM BUT BROUGHT THAT KIND OF PRACTICAL SENSE I HOPE TO THE LEV NEW DEPARTMENT WHERE THAT WAS THE COMMITTEE I WORKED UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF 60BB.

>>: REMEMBER HIM WELL.

>>: I WAS THE VICE CHAIRMAN SHE WAS THE CHAIR.

SHE WAS THE SMART ONE I WAS THE GOFER.

>>: HE WAS THE ONE WHO WAS A PIPEFITTER.

PROUDLY HAD ONLY GONE TO ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HERE YOU WERE HARVARD MBA BUT HE GAVE YOU A LESSEN SHE CAN HE WAS WONDERFUL.

I STILL TO THIS DAY HAVE GIVE MEMORY.

>>: YOU MUST HAVE HAD A GOOD EXPERIENCE BECAUSE YOU DECIDE TO RUN FOR CONGRESS AFTER THAT.

NOW YOU WEREN'T THAT SUCCESSFUL EARLY.

>>: I LOST.

I LOST ABOUT AS MANY RACE I EVER WON.

BUT I'M VERY ENERGETIC.

I DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE WINNING AND LOSING.

I WORRY ABOUT THE STATEMENT OF WHAT I BELIEVE AND HOW IT MIGHT CHANGE THE WORLD FOR A BETTER PLACE.

AND UNTHAT RACE THERE WERE LIKE 11 OR 12 OR 15 PEOPLE RUNNING FOR CONGRESS.

JOE WAGONER A GOOD CONGRESSMAN FOR YEARS UP THERE AND DECIDED UNEXPECTLILY NOT TO RUN FOR REELECTION.

SO A GROUP OF US WANNA BEES ALL SIGN SAID UP.

MOST OF THEM WERE MEMBERS OF THE LEGISLATOR ALREADY.

I WON'T TRY TO NAME EVERYBODY NAME.

YOU WOULD KNOW THEM.

AND I WAS ONE OF THE FEW WHO WAS A NONELECTED OFFICIAL AND WAS REALLY MAKING MY INAUGURAL RUN ACROSS PARISH LINES TO TAKE ME.

AND IT WAS DURING THAT ELECTION WHERE I WAS LEADING IN THAT ELECTION BY TWO WEEKS, TEN DAYS TO GO AND I SAID THAT IN ORDER TO BALANCE THE BUDGET I WOULD TAKE THE BIG PROJECT IN NORTH LOUISIANA THE RED RIVER AND I WOULD GIVE IT BACK TO THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT AND ASK EVERY CONGRESSMAN TO DO THE SAME AND THE BUDGET WOULD BE BALANCED IN A WEEK.

INTEREST RATES WOULD FALL AND PEOPLE WOULD GO BACK TO WORK GEN.

I THOUGHT IT WAS GREAT WHERE I HAD IDEA.

NUT OTHER POLITICIANS JOE WAGGER NO JOE HE'S DEAD NOW HE AND I LAUGHED ABOUT IT FOR YEARS.

VOTE FOR ANYBODY BUT ROEMER.

I LOST.

>>: SO YOU LOST.

BUT THEN YOU WERE SUCCESSFUL.

>>: ON THE SAME ISSUE.

TWO YEARS LATER.

YOU KNOW CONGRESS IS EVERY TWO YEARS.

SO DON'T WORRY ABOUT RUNNING FOR CONGRESS YOUR ALWAYS RUNNING.

AND I RAN AND BUDDY LEECH HAD RUN HIM AND JIMMY WILSON I FINISHED THIRD THE SECOND TIME WE RAN I FINISHED SECOND TO BUDDY LEECH AND HE AND I RAN IT OFF AND I BEAT HIM IN A RUN OFF I WAS LUCKY.

>>: AN INTERESTING THING THAT SUCCESSFUL THERE, DIFFERENT BODY THAN BEING SAY GOVERNOR OF THE STATE.

WHERE THE NEXT THING YOU TACKLE A DIBERATIVE BODY SEEMS TO BE YOUR BACKGROUND WOULD BE VERY SUPPORTIVE OF THAT HAVING DEBATED IDEAS AT THE DENAR TABLE.

>>: YOU DO GET TO DEBATE THE IMPORTANT ISSUES.

YOU REALLY LEARN ABOUT ISSUES.

NOT JUST SKINNING THE SURFACE YOU DON'T HAVE 500 VOTES IN A WEEK.

YOU HAVE 500 VOTES ON THE SAME ISSUE IN THE COST OF ONE YEAR, TWO YEARS OR THREE YEARSISM PLUS ALL THE WORK IS INDOORS.

IF SOMETHING GOES WRONG YOU CAN PLAIN THE PRESIDENT.

I NEVER HAD ANYBODY RUN AGAINST ME AFTER I WON I LOST THEN I WON AND THEN TWO YEARS LATER NO ONE RAN AGAINST ME.

TWO YEARS LATER NO ONE RAN AGAINST ME.

TWO YEARS LATER #RANK AGAINST ME.

THE ONLY MEMBER OF CONGRESS THAT HAD THREE CONSECATIVE ELECTION WHERE NO ONE RANK AGAINST HIM IN HIS PARTY OR ANY OTHER PART.

WHICH MEANS THAT I WAS IN TOUCH WITH THE PEOPLE.

I REALLY GOT INTO THAT JOB.

I LIKED IT IT WAS A GOOD JOB.

>>: WELL YOU DECIDE THOU TO RUN FOR GOVERNOR.

1987.

A BIG FIELD I REMEMBER THAT RACE WELL.

>>: GOOD FIELD.

THEY WERE JIM BROWN SECRETARY OF STATE.

EDWING EDWARDS THE MOST POPULAR AND SUCCESSFUL GOVERNOR WE MAY BE EVER HAD CERTAINLY IN MY LIFE TIME.

BILLY SUCCESSFUL MEGOF CONGRESS.

BOB FROM THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WHO WAS A VERY SUCCESSFUL MEMBER OF CONGRESS AND WAS ALMOST GOING TO BE SPEEPER OF THE HOUSE A FEW YEARS LATER AFTER HE LOST THAT ELECTION.

SO IT WAS AN ELECTION I WAS NOT EPECTED TO WIN.

I WAS LUCKY TO WIN THIS ELECTION.

LET ME JUST TELL YOU.

I THINK WE RAN A GOOD CAMPAIGN AND I GIVE STEVE COCK RN AND LIN SANDERSON AND MARK NAMES THAT HAVE BECOME FAMOUS ACROSS AMERICA IN ALECTION.

MARK GOT GEORGE BUSH ELECTED TWICE.

I HAD ALL KINDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE WORKING THIS ELECTION AND THEIR EFFORTS WHAT WON.

I WAS A GOOD CANDIDATE THOU BECAUSE I THINK BECAUSE I WAS UNAFRAID OF LOSING.

I HAD LOST BEFORISM EDWORDS USE TODAY ALWAYS TELL ME HOW HE HAD NEVER LOST AN ELECTION AND THAT BECOMES ITS LIKE A BASEBALL LIKE LSU WINNING 25 IN A ROW AND ALL OF A SUDDEN IT BECOME AS BURDEN TO THEM.

YOU KNOW.

>>: NEVER MAKING A B.

>>: YES.

I DIDN'T HAVE THAT BURDEN.

I HAD LOST MY FIRST TIME OUT IN THE SERIOUS RACE.

AND I SURVIVED.

I SMILED THE NEXT MORNING I CRIED I RAFTED I PAID OFF MY DEBITS SO I RANK UNAFRAID OF LOSING.

MY FEAR WAS THAT EDWARDS WOULD WIN AGAIN.

THAT WAS MY FEAR AND I SAID THAT.

SLAY THE DRAGON IF ITS REPUBLICAN VERSES EDWARDS I'M WITH A REPUBLICAN.

I DON'T HAVE TO CHECK WITH ANYBODY.

REMEMBER I WAS A DEMOCRAT THEN.

HOW CAN BUDDY SAY THAT.

LET ME TELL YOU WHY I SAID THAT.

I THOUGHT THE THE STATE.

>>: IT WAS A ROEMER REVOLUTION.

>>: A PHASE SOMEBODY CAME UP WITH.

BUT HERES WAS THE REVOLUTION WAS IT WASN'T ABOUT ME IT WAS ABOUT US.

IT WAS ABOUT LIVING IN A STATE THAT WAS BETTER THAN ITS REPUTATION.

IT WAS ABOUT LIVING IN A STATE WHERE THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST OF OUR CITIZENS WERE MOVING TO LAWS ANGELILOUS OR SAN FRANCISCO OR WASHINGTON AND NEW YORK AND ITS NOT RIGHT AND I WANTED TO GOVERNOR TO STAND UP AND SAY THAT CAN AND & I COULDN'T GET EDWARDS TO DO IT.

I SAID BY GOLLY I'M GOING TO DO IT AND HE AND EVERYBODY LAUGHED FOR ABOUT A YEAR.

>>: ONE OF THE THINGS YOU'RE POWDEST OF YOUR ENVIRONMENTAL RECORD.

>>: I'M READ PROUD OF THAT BECAUSE IT WAS A SUCH A CHRONTRARS TO WHAT I INHERITED I THINK WE'VE ALWAYS BEEN HUNTERS AND FISHERMAN AND I THINK WE'VE ALWAYS TAKEN CARE OF OUR CAMP AND OUR BOAT.

BUT WE NEVER COLLECTIVELY TOOK CARE OF OUR STATE.

WE HAD THE DAVE TRAIN GETS ALL THE CREDIT.

HE STARTED THE DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENT.

THERE T WAS A REPUBLICAN NO GOVERNMENT KIND OF GIEVMENT HE STARTED A NEW DEPARTMENT.

HE OUGHT TO GET CREDIT FOR THATCH WHAT WE GET CREDITED FOR WHEN FUND TD FOR THE FIRST TIME.

WE LEVIED FINES CLECKED STACKS MONEY AND INVESTED IN CLEAN AIR AND CLEAN WATER.

WEE GOT THE INVITERRAL WARD FOUR YEARS IN A ROW.

AS A STATE THE ONLY STATE IN AMOCKER TO GET THAT.

WE STARTED THE OIL FIELD RESERVOIR CLEAN UP.

COASTAL EROSION FUST FUNDISM HIGHWAY TRUST FUND.

JUST KIND OF RUN IT LIKE A BUSINESS.

I'M REAL POWD OF THAT.

>>: WELL, TOUGH TIMES THOU BECAUSE EDWING EDWARDS WAS SITTING OUT THERE SECOND GESSING YOU AS WELL.

>>: A LOT.

THAT WAS WHAT HE'S WAS ASOAZED TO DO.

I DON'T HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH EDWING EDWARDS.

HE'S A GOOD POLITICIAN AND HE TOOK WATT OPENS I GAVE HIMMISM HE DIDN'T HAVE ANY ON HIS OWN CAUSE HE DIDN'T HAVE A RECORD.

BUT HE'S A VERY GIFTED POLITICIAN AND HE COULD MAKE FUN OF WHEN I FELL SHORT AND I DID OFTENNISM HAIK MAKE FUN HOW DIFFICULT IT WAS FOR ME TO PASS THING THROUGH THE LEGISLATOR.

TAKE ME THREE OR FOUR TIMES BECAUSE HE WAS IN THE BACK PULLING VOTES OFF OF ME.

HE HAD THE AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORICAL CALLED THE BLACK VOTE WAS REALLY MARRIED TO HIM AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY BUT THAT WAS TRUISM HE'D GET ABOUT 33 PERCENT OF THE VOTE, THE BLACK VOTE.

AND THEN HE HELPED MASTER MIND HE'S WHAT BEAT ME.

I COULD BET EDWING HEAD OFF.

I SAY THAT MODESTLY.

HE HAD THAT 33, 35 PERCENT BUT HE DIDN'T HAVE ANYMORE THAN THAT.

BUD I DIDN'T HAVE THAT MUCH WHEN DAVID DUKE GOT IN THE RACE.

DAVID DUKE TOOK MY GOOD FRIENDS UP NORTH WHERE YOU AND I A RED NECK SHOWS AND HEIMPRESSED HIM.

ROEMER IS NOT CONSERVATIVE ENOUGH.

WE OUGHT TO THROW ALL THE RASICALS OUT.

HE WAS VERY GOOD.

DAVID DUKE.

I THINK HE'S AN EVIL GUY I THINK HIS THOUGHTS ABOUT PUTTING DOWN JEWS AND CATHOLICS AND WOMAN AND PEOPLE WHO I THINK THEY'RE TERRIBLE.

BUT HE WAS A VERY EFFECTIVE POLITICIAN.

AND HE COVERED OFT ABOUT A THIRD OF THE VOTE.

EDWING COVERED ABOUT A THIRD OF THE VOTE.

AND I WAS LEFT WITH THE REMAINING 28 OR 29 PERCENT.

>>: AND CAME IN THIRD SEEK I CAME IN THIRD.

REALLY A BAD THIRD.

I WAS THREE OR FOUR POINTS BEHIND.

>>: AND SO IT SET UP JUST INCREDIBLY DIFFICULT TIME WHERE PEOPLE WERE SAYING VOTE FOR THE CROAK ITS THAT IMPORTANT.

>>: GEORGE EDWARDS I DIDN'T CALL HIM A CROAK THEM.

>>: THE BUMMER STICKER.

>>: BUT I THOUGHT COMPARED TO DUKE IT WAS EASY.

IT WAS AN EASY VOTE.

>>: SO YOU HAD A FEW ATTEMPTS TO COME BACK IN DIFFERENT THINKS ABOUT DIFFERENT RACES.

>>: YES.

>>: BUT SUCCESS NOW BEING A BUSINESS MAN BEING A BANKER BACK TO YOUR FINANCIAL ROOTS.

>>: FIRST THING BEFORE I DID THAT I ACCEPTED A POSITION CALLED THE KENNEDY FELLOW IT WAS GOOD FOR ME TO KIND OF LEAVE THE STATE FOR A WHILE AND BE WITH YOUNG, MY SON WAS A SENIOR AT HARVARD AND THAT WAS GOOD FOR ME.

THEN I CAME HOME AND I BEGAN TO BUILD BANKS I GOT WITH A GUY NAMED JOE TAKINGAL A LOCAL BUSINESS MAN AND FORM A COMPANY CALLED THE STERLING GROUP WE TRADED WITH CHEMICAL COMPANIES THROUGHOUT THE WORLD GETTING THEIR GOODS AND SUPPLIES JOE WAS VERY GOOD AT THAT I COULD OPEN THE DOORS.

A VERY SUCCESSFUL BUSINESS.

BUT THEN I DECIDED WITH MILLTEN A LOCAL BUSINESS MAN AND A FEW OTHERS JOHN AND A FEW OTHERS TO FORM CALLED THE BUSINESS BANK A NEW CONCEPT IN BANKING.

WE GOT PEAT WHO ATHLETTING DIRECTOR AT OLD MISBE A FIRST BANK PRESIDENT.

PEAT WANTED TO RESIGN AFTER A COUPLE YEARS AND I TOOK HIS PLACISM BUILT THAT INTO A VERY SUCCESSFUL BANK WE SOLD THAT.

THEN AFTER A YEAR WHICH I PROMISED I WOULD GIVE THEM A YEAR WE STARTED OVER AGAIN AND WE HAVE BUSINESS FIRST BANK.

WE'RE IN SHREVEPORT, BATON ROUGE, LAFAYETTE, LAKE CHARLES, MANDEVILLE AND NOW NEW IN HOUMA THIBODAUX SO WE COVER THE STATEMENT NOW AND WE ARE A FAST HIGH TECH BUSINESS BANK WORK WITHING SMALL AND MEDIUM SIZED BUSINESSES.

WE'RE ABOUT 600 FIFTY MILLION DOLLARS.

THAT'S A PRETTY GOOD SIZE BANK PARTICULARLY IN 94 YEARS.

FOUR YEARS OLD.

BUT I LIKE BANK.

ON THE BANKING COMMITTEE OF CONGRESS.

A TRAINED BRANCH ANSWER BUSINESSMAN FROM HAF VRD IF YOU FORGIVE THAT BUT THAT WAS MY TRAINING.

I KNEW I WAS GOING TO GET IN BUSINESS SOME DAY AND THE PEOPLE OF LOUISIANA INCYSTED THAT I QUIT POLITICS AND GET IN BUSINESS AND I SAID OKAY WATCH THIS AND WE'VE BEEN VERY LUCKY YOU KNOW YOU STILL HAVE TREMENDOUS ENERGYISM ALWAYS IMPRESSED BY THAT.

I SEE YOU NOW WE'RE GRAND PARENTS AT SPORTING EVENTS YOU HAVE THREE GRAND CHILDREN.

>>: THREE.

I HAVE THREE CHILDREN CAROLINE, CHAZ AND DAKOTA AND THREE GRAND CHILDRENOEN AND IS THE YOUNGEST ALMOST TWO.

ADLINE IS NINE.

AND CHARLES IS SEVEN.

AND THEY ARE WONDERFUL GRAND KIDS.

>>: NICE TO BE MARRIED TO A NURSE AND BIASTEN.

>>: I'M MERELY AS DUMB AS A LOOK.

YAD DIVORCE WHEN I WAS GOVERNOR IT WAS SO PAINFUL BETH I CAN NOT TELL YOU HOW Y IT JUST BROKE ME A PART.

BUT I DECIDED TO LIVE OKAY.

AND I STAYED UNMARRIED FOR TEN YEARS, 12 YEARS, HOWEVER LONG IT WAS.

AND THEN AT THE AGE OF 58 I GOT MARRIED TO A YOUNGER WOMAN WHO IS A PIANEE PLAYER LSU GRADUATE A REGISTERED NURSE AND HER NAME A SCARLET.

SHE GREW UP IN SHEAVE PORT UNTIL THE AGE OF TWO OR THREE AND MOVED TO JACKSON MISSISSIPPI SO SHE CALLS HER SELF MISSISSIPPIAN BUT THE BEST THING THAT EVERY HAPPENED TO ME.

>>: GOVERNOR THANK YOU FOR BEING WITH US.

TRULY A LEGEND