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Life looks good at 110: A witness to history from Jim Crow to Barack Obama - and a family treasure.
Byline: Stephen Magagnini
Jun. 4--Booker T. Washington came to his third-grade class and taught him to treat millionaires and day laborers the same -- with courtesy and respect.
Louis Armstrong played trumpet on his front porch in New Orleans' Seventh Ward and riffed about jazz, fishing holes and moving pictures.
George Rene Francis has lived through 19 presidents and seven American wars. He rode in the back of the bus and chauffeured a white doctor around New Orleans in a Studebaker and a Cadillac.
A lifelong Democrat, he recalls listening to Franklin Roosevelt's fireside chats.
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