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Louie B. Nunn Recalled as Challenging, Charismatic
Louisville, KY, Courier-Journal ^ | 02-03-04 | Cross, Al

Posted on 02/03/2004 5:40:12 AM PST by Theodore R.

Edited on 05/07/2004 6:47:05 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

FRANKFORT, Ky. - The state capital said goodbye to Louie B. Nunn yesterday, remembering the former governor as a tenacious and courageous politician, as a demanding and inspiring boss, and as a tender and tough father.

"Our father, to me, was the John Wayne of Kentucky politics - always doing what he thought was right, never afraid to take a stand," Nunn's son, state Rep. Steve Nunn, said at a Capitol rotunda service for his father, who died Thursday.


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