SEARCHING FOR SUBSTANCE LOCKE'S FIRST YEAR WAS A BASK IN THE LIMELIGHT.(News)

From: Seattle Post-Intelligencer | Date: December 26, 1997| Author: | Copyright information

Ask Gary Locke about the high points of his first year in office and he points to three very personal moments: his inauguration, the birth of his daughter and his pilgrimage to the Locke ancestral village in China.

It's revealing what he doesn't say. There is no mention of governing, nor taking credit for any critical piece of legislation.

Eleven months after Locke was sworn in as the nation's first Chinese American governor, his ethnicity and his immigrant's story of rising from modest beginnings to the governor's mansion remain his chief claim to national and ...

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