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Thereafter, the bottom fell out politically for Despot's favorite, the first President Bush. Challenged from the right by Pat Buchanan and plagued by a troubling economy, Bush failed nationally and in Louisiana as well in the 1992 elections.​ Both of those developments would have been especially troubling to George J. Despot had he lived.  

Thereafter, the bottom fell out politically for Despot's favorite, the first President Bush. Challenged from the right by Pat Buchanan and plagued by a troubling economy, Bush failed nationally and in Louisiana as well in the 1992 elections.​ Both of those developments would have been especially troubling to George J. Despot had he lived.  

Despot's Republican Party papers are in the archives section of Louisiana State University in Shreveport.​

Despot's Republican Party papers are in the archives section of Louisiana State University in Shreveport.

 

==References==

==References==

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*''[[Shreveport Journal]],'' August 23, 1979​.

*''[[Shreveport Journal]],'' August 23, 1979​.

 

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