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===Political anecdotes===
===Political anecdotes===
*John McKeithen
*John McKeithen
In 1968, after Governor McKeithen failed to gain the Democratic vice-presidential nomination at the convention in [[Chicago]], which nominated [[Hubert Humphrey]] to run against Richard Nixon and [[George Wallace]], he privately threatened to resign and turn over his office to Lieutenant Governor Clarence C. "Taddy" Aycock (1915-1987). McKeithen's executive secretary summoned LaBorde and publisher Joe Dorsey Smith, Jr., to Baton Rouge to talk McKeithen out of a hastily considered resignation.
In 1968, after Governor McKeithen failed to gain the Democratic vice-presidential nomination at the convention in [[Chicago]], which nominated [[Hubert Humphrey]] to run against Richard Nixon and [[George Wallace]], he privately threatened to resign and turn over his office to Lieutenant Governor Clarence C. "Taddy" Aycock (1915-1987). McKeithen's executive secretary summoned LaBorde and publisher Joe Dorsey Smith, Jr., to Baton Rouge to talk McKeithen out of a hastily considered resignation.
Though LaBorde required his reporters to be objective regarding their subjects, he personally had a soft spot for another south Louisiana politician, his fellow "Cajun", U.S. Senator Allen Ellender from Houma in Terrebonne Parish, with whom he liked to swap "fish stories." It was said that with their dark-rimmed glasses, LaBorde and Ellender bore a physical resemblance, though Ellender was more than twenty years LaBorde's senior. Ellender died during his 1972 reelection campaign.<ref name=bio/>
Though LaBorde required his reporters to be objective regarding their subjects, he personally had a soft spot for another south Louisiana politician, his fellow "Cajun", U.S. Senator Allen Ellender from Houma in Terrebonne Parish, with whom he liked to swap "fish stories." It was said that with their dark-rimmed glasses, LaBorde and Ellender bore a physical resemblance, though Ellender was more than twenty years LaBorde's senior. Ellender died during his 1972 reelection campaign.<ref name=bio/>
==Ransdell biography==
==Ransdell biography==