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In other places, too, the installation of new governors served as a stage to reassert the importance of tradition.  Lambert Lokopwe, then a congressman, wears traditional clothing as he speaks at the inauguration of Erhart Aten as the first governor of Chuuk.
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(photo from TT Archives, Univ. of Hawaii Library)