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    Shouldn't this have a citation?: "Bush scored an easy victory over MacKay, who ran what is generally considered a rather poor campaign."

    TLMAlexGro 02:53, 31 January 2006

    anyone want to add something about the elementary, middle, and high school named after him? or perhaps, that he created. i don't know which one.

    Rashad9607 06:17, 9 December 2005 (UTC)

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    [edit] It's pretty amazing

    It's pretty amazing to all of us in the family that so much has been created or named after him. There's even a trail :)

    Lawton Chiles IV

    It is indeed, amazing what he has done for our state. Unfortuantely, your anecdotes don't particularly suit Wikipedia, since it violates a couple of items listed in What Wikipedia is not. Mariana 13:43, 16 August 2006 (UTC)
    I completely concur and back Mariana's revert. Rashad9607 19:07, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

    [edit] Lawton Chiles International House

    There is a building at the National Institutes of Health named for Chiles. It was dedicated in 1998 and houses the NIH Fogarty International Center. Is it worth a mention in this article? [1] —Wrathchild (talk) 18:24, 12 March 2007 (UTC)

    [edit] Citations

    This article is in desparate need of citations. ludahai 魯大海 04:12, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

    [edit] 1994 Re-election Campaign

    The article does not mention "..the deceptive scare calls that were made to older voters in the final days of his reelection campaign."

    The passage about the 1994 re-election should be edited to include a reference to it.

    Here is a $$$ article citation that I googled:

    http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=BG&p_theme=bg&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EADE18CDFBD5F75&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM

    CHILES APOLOGIZES FOR CAMPAIGN CALLS - November 15, 1995 - AP

    TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Gov. Lawton Chiles apologized yesterday for the deceptive scare calls that were made to older voters in the final days of his reelection campaign, calling them a terrible mistake. "This was our campaign and we accept responsibility for these actions," Chiles said. "We apologize to the people." The callers hired by the Chiles campaign in the two weeks leading up to the...

    72.82.198.111 07:46, 9 September 2007 (UTC)