Gus Weill was a first lieutenant in the Counter Intelligence Corps in Frankfurt, Germany, until his military discharge in 1957.
11 Facts About Gus Weill
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Gus Weill trained the Democratic strategist James Carville, a mastermind of the election in 1992 of Bill Clinton, then the governor of Arkansas, as US president.
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Gus Weill groomed other public relations specialists, who became his competitors, such as Raymond Strother, manager of the Gary Hart presidential campaign, and Roy Fletcher, affiliated with Patrick J Buchanan's insurgent Republican campaigns.
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Gus Weill promoted the advantages of the Louisiana Superdome domed stadium in New Orleans.
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Gus Weill convinced McKeithen to implement the state agency, the Council for the Development of French in Louisiana, or CODOFIL, an idea originally proposed by US Representative James Domengeaux of Lafayette.
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An author of novels, plays, and poetry, Gus Weill spent two years working for the producer Otto Preminger.
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For nineteen years, Gus Weill hosted the program Louisiana Legends on his state's Public Broadcasting Service network.
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Gus Weill died on April 13,2018, at the age of 85 while under hospice care.
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In 1983, Weill was named to the Douglas L Manship Hall of Fame in the LSU School of Mass Communications.
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In 1996, Gus Weill was inducted into the Louisiana Political Museum and Hall of Fame in Winnfield.
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All his life, Gus Weill has been distracted by a restless mind incapable of sticking to one subject for long.