Re: From MY FIRST DAYS IN THE GOVERNOR'S MANSION

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On 12/07/06, Hardy Parkerson, Atty. - Lake Charles, LA
wrote:
> Chapter 2 - Our Inauguration
>
> Once we have been elected, there will come the
> swearing in. It really will not be my Inauguration, but
> the inauguration of the little people of Louisiana. I plan
> to study the inauguration of Andrew Jackson and make ours
> match or outdo his first inauguration as much as possible.
> I recall studying about Jackson’s inauguration when I was
> a student at McNeese and taking American history from Dr.
> Donald J. Millet. Dr. Millet was a great professor, and
> in those days at McNeese he taught his classes in an old
> Army barracks moved onto the McNeese Campus and converted
> into a classroom. In those days, many of the McNeese
> classes were held in such old Army barracks. Dr. Millet
> taught much more than history. He taught about the
> Catholic Church and about Christianity as well. His
> lectures just came across in such a way as to let us know
> that his calling was more than as a history professor.
> And although I had gone to church all my life, and in my
> years prior to college, I had pretty much gone to church
> three times a week: Sunday morning, Sunday night and
> Wednesday night; nevertheless, I never learned what the
> Doctrine of the Trinity was until I heard Dr. Millet
> explain how St. Patrick had gone into England and had
> taken the clover leaf to explain to the indigenous natives
> how that the Godhead could be and was “three in one,” by
> demonstrating how the cloverleaf was “three in one.” It
> was strange to me, even early in my college years, to
> realize that I had learned such an important tenet of the
> Christian Faith as the Doctrine of the Trinity from a
> Catholic, as I had been brought up in a church and in a
> society which was pretty much “anti-Catholic.”
>
> As a young adult, I once had a serious problem,
> and I sought out for spiritual advice a friend of mine who
> was a retired Catholic priest. We had never discussed
> religion before, only the fact that he was a retired
> Catholic priest. When I approached him about my problem,
> I had the presence of mind to call him “Father”, although
> all of my life I had been taught to “call no man ‘Father’
> but the father who was in Heaven.” Nevertheless, I said
> to my friend the retired Catholic priest, “Father Gobeil,
> I am not a Catholic, but….” He heard my initial
> introduction to him and said, “Son, let me ask you some
> questions!” When I had answered all of his litany of
> questions affirmatively, he said, “Son, you ARE a Catholic…
> according to Vatican II.” This came as a real surprise to
> me; and, I must add that since that time it has always
> been a comforting thought to me. Sometimes when I am
> asked if I am a Catholic, I answer, “No, but I am a better
> Catholic than a lot of them I know.”
>
> What has this got to do with the Inauguration?
> Not so much; but I plan to have the Bishop of Louisiana
> for each of the the religious denominations in the state
> of Louisiana be a big part of the people’s Inauguration;
> for, after all, there is only “one” religion and I do
> believe it is the “catholic” religion, whether it be
> Baptist, Methodist, Assemblies of God, Pentecostal, Church
> of Christ, Episcopalian, Roman Catholic…whatever it is.
> There is more to it all than this, but this is something
> to think about.
>
> I was brought up in a church that did not believe in
> dancing. However, I have come to believe over the years
> that dancing is not as bad as it was made to seem to me
> when I was a boy growing up. So at the Inauguration,
> there will be “dancing on the Capitol Grounds,”
> and “dancing in the Streets of Baton Rouge.” We will have
> good Cajun music and good Cajun bands there to play and
> sing. Also, we will have good Blue Grass bands and
> vocalists there and good Country and Western bands and
> vocalists there and good Gospel bands and Gospel vocalists
> there. If we can afford him after the election, we are
> going to have Willie Nelson and Governor Kinky Friedman
> there…singing, as usual. The Parkerson Administration is
> going to be a musical one. I am going to have Jimmy Smith
> and Leonard Grissino and Brother Murrell Ewing and…you
> name him, or her…if he or she has musical and/or vocal
> talent, he or she is going to get a chance to perform at
> and be a big part of the People’s Inauguration and on the
> grounds of, and in the Lobby of, the State Capitol and on
> the grounds of and inside the Governor’s Mansion, and all
> during the four years of the Parkerson Administration.
>
> And if we can afford to pay their plane fares and
> hotel bills--or maybe we can let all of them stay in the
> Governor’s Mansion during our Inauguration week; for sure
> I’ll be staying in my R.V. parked in the parking lot at
> the Governor’s Mansion--we will have former First Lady
> Nancy Reagan and her and President Ronald Reagan’s family
> there; and also former First Lady Rosalyn Carter and
> President Jimmy Carter there too; and President Gerald
> Ford and former First Lady Betty Ford; and President Bill
> Clinton and former First Lady, Hillary Clinton there. And
> if I am failing to mention somebody special that you would
> like to see be there and to be a big part of our
> Inauguration, you just let me know who it is, and I will
> do my very best to get them there.
>
> There is more to it all than this, but this is
> something to think about and to look forward too. And you,
> if you desire to be, you are going to be a big part of our
> Inauguration too. You just let me know!
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