Please Pass the Biscuits, Pappy : : Pictures of Governor W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel / / Bill Crawford.
Long before movie stars Ronald Reagan and Arnold Schwarzenegger became governors of California, a popular radio personality with no previous political experience—who wasn't even registered to vote—swept into the governor's office of Texas. W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel was a 1930s...
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