Jindal, First Indian-American Governor, Takes Office

BATON ROUGE, La. — Pledging to make a "clean break with the past" and root out corruption, Republican Bobby Jindal tried to separate himself from politics as usual as he was sworn in as Louisiana's governor yesterday. Mr. Jindal, the nation's first elected Indian-American chief executive and the state's first non-white governor since Reconstruction, thanked past governors for their service — but said it was time to rid the state of its reputation for corrupt government. "We have the opportunity — born of tragedy but embraced still the same — to make right decades of failure in government," Mr. Jindal said.