Cokie Boggs Roberts is the society-girl daughter of Hale and Lindy Boggs, both of whom represented the Louisiana 2CD for many, many years -- about 40 years+, I think.
Hale disappeared in a light aircraft in Alaska in the early 60's, and Lindy ran for and got his seat.
She walked the liberal-Democratic line for years, carrying water for her majority-black district until the black ministers came for her about 8-10 years ago and delivered the news: "It's time for one of our own."
Wonder if either Lindy or Cokie learned anything from that?
Lindy Boggs - In 1997, President Bill Clinton appointed her official U.S. ambassador to the Holy See, a position she held until 2001.
She is the widow of former House Majority Leader Hale Boggs, and the mother of three children: Cokie Roberts (a television news commentator), Thomas Hale Boggs, Jr., (a prominent lobbyist), and the late Barbara Boggs Sigmund, a mayor of Princeton, New Jersey, and a candidate in the 1982 New Jersey Democratic senatorial primary election.
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After Brown v. Board of Education he (Hale Boggs) signed the Southern Manifesto condemning desegregation in the 1950s and opposed the 1964 Civil Rights Act.
In April 1971 he (Hale Boggs) made a speech on the floor of the House, strongly attacking FBI Director J Edgar Hoover, and the whole of the FBI. This led to a conversation between then President Richard Nixon and the Republican Minority Leader Gerald Ford in which Nixon said he could no longer take counsel from Boggs as a senior member of Congress. In the recording of this call, Nixon is heard to ask Ford to arrange for the House delegation to include an alternative to Boggs. Ford speculates that Boggs is on pills as well as alcohol.