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I met the Colonel when Elvis was recording some song I'd written for one of his movies. Elvis was just having fun with the gang and all the Memphis boys and Colonel Parker was sitting over here in like a theater seat.

One way or another, I want to be a positive force for the people of Louisiana and the United States of America in whatever way I can serve.

It has been a privilege beyond belief for me to have represented the State of Louisiana in Congress and to have been given the blessed assignment of U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See.

I've been president of Brown and chancellor of Vanderbilt, where they have very high completion rates.

I'm an honorary ambassador for Stand Up to Cancer, and I'm also associated with St. Jude's.

I'm from Louisiana and live in Texas now.

I have actually five honorary degrees.