Edwards' items given to museum - 2004-01-04
A pair of cowboy boots monogrammed "EE," a matchbook from Caesars Palace casino, a $1,000 pink poker chip from an Aruba casino, a white satin jacket stating "Edwin Edwards No. 1 in '91," invites to the 1992 inaugural ceremony for Edwards' fourth term as governor, a pin saying "I luv the Guv."
It's the kind of stuff you might expect to see in Edwin Edwards' attic, and indeed you might have, until lately. Now, it's in the state's official storeroom,
the Louisiana State Museum.
The museum's board accepted a donation from the Edwards family of nearly 100 items associated with the life and career of the most dominant and - perhaps excepting only Earl Long - most colorful Louisiana politician of the past half-century.
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