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McKeithen was a link to a bygone time
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus Jul 20, 2005 11:54am |
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| Category | Opinion |
| Media | Newspaper - New Orleans Times-Picayune |
| News Date | Wednesday, July 20, 2005 05:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Before he was hospitalized again last month with problems that led to his death Saturday, Secretary of State Fox McKeithen had been going into the office occasionally. Heartened staffers encouraged him to meet with the press to demonstrate what they saw: his mental sharpness, sense of humor and fighting spirit, despite his paralysis suffered from a fall in his home in February.
But McKeithen resisted, not ready to expose his infirmity, which would replace the image of him as the active, hands-on state official. So, the last picture most citizens have of Fox McKeithen is of him in jeans and baseball cap, driving a delivery truck around the streets of New Orleans to get voting machines to polling places last September. In what he called "the craziest rodeo I've been in," McKeithen commandeered the truck at a warehouse when he discovered that the local clerk's office and the contractor had failed to deliver all the machines before the polls opened.
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