ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEE NAME: John McKeithen # 4700.0042

IDENTIFICATION: Governor of Louisiana (1964-1972)

INTERVIEWER: Jack Fiser

PROJECT: LSU History

DATE: 1982 FOCUS DATES: 1964-1972

ABSTRACT:

Tape 52:

Plaque given to him by the people of St. Bernard Parish; building Assembly center during his time as governor; McKeithen helps raise money from large New York companies for the building of CEBA; he helped the new Dental School in New Orleans; outstanding appointees to the Board of Supervisors; building Paul Hebert Law Center; support of the people needed for the expansion of LSU; Dr. Edgar Hull recommends the building of a new medical school in Shreveport; McKeithen helps Louisiana Tech and Northeast; urging Terry Bradshaw to play football for Louisiana Tech; McKeithen helped LSU without any social relationship; McKeithen as a "hard-scrap" folk; his nephew, Bob Merideth, recruiter for Chevron; Dean Haag accepts Chairmanship of the Mineral Board; Roger Richardson, Jerry McClendon, and McKeithen form a Dean's committee; McKeithen asks

H. L. Hunt for donations for Jake Justice's campaign; McKeithen tries to get Bernie Slinger to take the Chancellorship; McKeithen announces the lease of the Dome Stadium; Bernie Slinger signs the Dome Stadium lease

TAPE: T 52 CASSETTE TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 75 min.

# PAGES TRANSCRIPT: 23

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