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ORLEANS. NEW ORLEANS HAS A VERY SPECIAL PLACE IN MY HEART. AND, IT'S, IT MEANS A,
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VERY MUCH TO BE TO BE HERE. NEW ORLEANS WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO HUEY LONG. HUEY LONG WAS VERY IMPORTANT TO NEW ORLEANS IN MANY POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE...
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RELATIONSHIP WITH NEW ORLEANS DURING THE 19 TO'S IT'S A VERY MIXED RELATIONSHIP. HUEY LOVED NEW ORLEANS. HE LIKED BIG CITIES. HE LIKED BIG CITIES...
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ORLEANS. HE HATED WASHINGTON, D.C. HE HATED BATON ROUGE. NOTHING WOULD MAKE HUEY HAPPIER, THAN TO BE IN THE BLUE ROOM OF THE ROOSEVELT HOTEL, HALF...
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BROUGHT LSU UP TO NATIONAL STANDARDS. HE GAVE FREE SCHOOL
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BOOKS TO SCHOOL CHILDREN. SOME REMARKABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS. HE WAS VERY EFFECTIVE. NOW HIS METHODS WERE VERY DUB. HE HAD A STATE TREASURER WHO WAS ELECTED...
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WAS GOING TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT IN 196. NOW WHETHER HE WOULD HAVE CHALLENGED ROOSEVELT AS A DEMOCRAT OR WOULD HAVE STARTED A THIRD PARTY,
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IS, WE DON'T KNOW. AND HE ALSO SAID TO PEOPLE HE WAS CLOSE WITH, THAT, HE WASN'T THAT SERIOUS ABOUT 1936. HE MOST LIKELY WOULD HAVE STARTED A THIRD...
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ABSOLUTE BRILLIANCE. WAS SO THE QUICK ON HIS FEET. HE COP WILL BOIL A SUB DOWN TO
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ITS ESSENTIALS AND HAVE A CLARITY TO ANY POLITICAL ISSUE THAT NO ONE AROUND HIM COULD APPROACH ANYTHING HE SAW, HE IMMEDIATELY TURNED IT BACK TO WHETHER...
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IT WAS A LOVE-HATE -- WITH JULIUS IT WAS NEVER GOOD. THEY HAD A FALLING OUT BACK WHEN HUEY WAS A YOUNG ATTORNEY. AND THEY NEVER GOT BACK -- WELL THEY
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DID GET BACK TOGETHER WHEN HUEY WAS, ABOUT TO BE IMPEACHED. JULIUS CAME TO BATON ROUGE AND HELPED WITH THE DEFENSE. AS DID EARL. BUT, ONE OF THE, PEOPLE...
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ABOUT 10% OF THEIR SALARY AND THAT HELPED KEEP THE LONG MACHINE GOING.
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AND, SEYMOUR WEISS WAS THE FINANCIAL MANAGER OF HUEY'S POLITICAL EMPIRE. SEYMOUR WAS MANAGER OF THE ROOSEVELT HOTEL HERE IN NEW ORLEANS. AND, HUEY'S...
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WAS LIKE IN 194 WHEN ROBERT PEN WARREN ARRIVED ON CAMPUS DURING HUEY'S
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REIN. IN THAT LECTURE I ADVISE MY STUDENTS TO GO OVER TO THE OLD, QUADRANGLE WHERE THE OLDER LSU BUILDINGS ARE AND GO IN ANY BUILDING AND LOOK AT THE...
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AND HE GOLD-PLATED IT. IT WAS A BEAUTIFUL AIRPORT WHEN IT WAS BUILT. IT WAS THE FINEST AIRPORT IN THIS
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COUNTRY. MOST TECHNOLOGICALLY ADVANCED AIRPORT. AS WAS, CHARITY HOSPITAL THE MOST TECHNOLOGICALLY, ADVANCED HOSPITAL IN THE COUNTRY AT THE TIME. BUT,...
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INTELLECTUAL REN. THEY WERE BRINGING -- WHEN OTHER UNIVERSITIES AROUND THE COUNTRY WERE FIRING PROFESSORS BECAUSE OF THE DEPRESSION. LSU WAS HIRING FINEST...
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OIL. CALLED THE EVIL EMPIRE. TRIED TO PUT A PROCESSING TAX ON STANDARD OIL EARLY IN HIS ADMINISTRATION. THAT'S WHAT LED TO HIS, TO HIS IMPEACHMENT WHICH
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HE BARELY SURVIVED. BUT AT THE SAME TIME, HUEY WAS NEGOTIATING WITH STANDARD OIL. HE WAS PLIKING DEALS WITH THEM ON ON POSSIBLE TAXES GIVING THEM...
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DONE AS PART OF LSU'S ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM. THEY WERE DONE SINCE HARRY WILLIAMS DID HIS INTERVIEWS BACK IN
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THE 50s60s. THOSE INTERVIEWS ARE STILL ONGOING. -- '50s AND '60s. THAT'S A GREAT PROGRAM. A LOT OF FORMER FACULTY MEMBERS WERE INTERVIEWED RECENTLY....
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COMPARING HUEY TO A SUBJECT ONE OF MY PREVIOUS BOOKINGS ON THE EARLY LIFE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT. A LOT OF DIFFERENCES AND A LOT OF PARALLELS. IF YOU LOOK...
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A QUICKNESS. NOT NECESSARILY BRILLIANCE BUT A QUICKNESS. AND, THEODORE AND HUEY BOTH HAD QUICKNESS. ANOTHER IS, TO HAVE, VERY CLEAR MISSIONS AND, GOALS....
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IT, OR IT WENT BACK FURTHER. IT CERTAINLY WENT BACK FURTHER. AS, IT WAS PART OF OUR CULTURE BEFORE HUEY. BUT HUEY, NOT ONLY PERPETUATED IT, HE ACCENTUATED...
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COULD BECOME REAL WEALTHY IN THE SYSTEM. AND HE, RAISED THE STAKES. BEFORE HUEY, THERE WAS A "GENTLEMAN'S AGREEMENT" WITH POLITICIANS. THEY NEVER...
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AND RESEARCHING THEODORE ROOSEVELT. AT HARVARD LOAN THERE ARE OVER 150,000 LETTERS THAT ROOSEVELT WROTE. HE PROBABLY WROTE, 300 TO 500 THOUSAND LETTERS....
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LETTERS. >> HE BROKE OVER WROTE TWO DOZEN BOOKS. >> BOOK ON NAVAL WARFARE EVEN TO THIS DAY USED IN THE NAVAL ACADEMY, HUEY LONG, WROTE EVERY MAN A KING...
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RESEARCHING AN AREA OF HIS LIFE THAT HAD BEEN OVERLOOKED
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BUT THERE WAS PLENTY OF MATERIAL TO IT. HIS FIRST FIVE YEARS
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IN WASHINGTON, D.C.. WHEN HE WAS CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONER. WITH HUEY IT WAS VERY DIFFERENT. I HAD TO USE, A LOT OF, FORMER INTERVIEWS,
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AND TRANSCRIPTS OF INTERVIEWS AND WORD-OF-MOUTH. HUEY ONLY DEALT WITH CASH. AND ONLY WORKED VERY SELDOM DID HE PUT ANYTHING DOWN IN WRITING. I WAS...
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WAS EXPERT ON THEODORE ROOSEVELT. >> I DON'T KNOW ANSWER TO THAT. AND THE ANSWER BOTHERS ME, LACK OF BOOKS ON HUEY LONG DOES BOTHER ME. BECAUSE HE WAS...
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ECONOMIC SITUATION SIMILAR TO THE DEPRESSION AND IT COULD FOSTER, SOME PRETTY SERIOUS AND, SCARY POLITICIANS VERY QUICKLY. AND SO I THINK THE LESSON...
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BUT HUEY WAS BY FAR THE MOST DANGEROUS OF THEM. >> WAS HE CONSIDERED, I THINK ROOSEVELT CONSIDERED HIM THE
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MOST, SECOND MOST DANGEROUS MAN IN THE COUNTRY NEXT TO DOUGLAS MACARTHUR. >> THAT'S CORRECT. >> I GOT TWO QUESTIONS. AGAIN BRINGING THE BOOK, UP TO...
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HUEY LONG INCLUDING IN OUR CONVERSATION TODAY. SO I WONDERED IF YOU HAVE ANY OR THOUGHTS HOW CORRUPTION SPECIFICALLY, BECAUSE DETAILS THAT THINGS...
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INTERESTING. HOW IT MAY HAVE BEEN DIFFERENT IN
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HUEY'S TIME FROM OUR TIME? AND, I GUESS PARALLEL TO THAT ALSO WHAT YOU LEARNED ABOUT HUEY LONG IN TERMS OF YOUR, WHAT YOU DO WITH HUEY LONG IN YOUR TEACHING...
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HIS FRIENDS. MORALLY, THERE ARE, I HAVE SOME BIG PROBLEMS WITH IT. IN TODAY'S TIME, THERE ARE A LOT OF ANTI-CORRUPTION LAWS, REGULATIONS, TO PROHIBIT...
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THAT PREACHER IN HUEY AS WELL, ALTHOUGH HE NEVER WENT TO CHURCH AFTER HE WAS A YOUNG BOY. I THINK, IF YOU, WERE ABLE TO TALK EDWIN
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EDWARDS, HE WOULD TALK ABOUT HOW MUCH HE WAS INFLUENCED BY HUEY. AND HUEY'S SUCCESSES AND HOW HE GARNERED AND APPEALED, APPEALED TO THE POOR FOLK AROUND...
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SCRIPTURE, VERBATIM, LINE AFTER LINE AND SOME OF IT WAS EVEN CORRECT. BUT HE HAD SO MUCH CONFIDENCE YOU BELIEVED IT.
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PROBABLY HIS GREATEST SPEECH WAS, WHEN HE DEFENDED HIS, HISSELF BEING CEDED AT THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION OF 1932 WILL ROGERS AND CLARENCE DARE ROW...
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LAW. HE WAS NOT WORRIED ABOUT GETTING A DEGREE
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FROM TULANE. HE FOUND THE BEST LAW PROFESSORS. HE WOULD GET ON THE STREETCAR WITH THEM AND ASK THEM LAW QUESTIONS. HIS SOLE PURPOSE WAS POWER. ONE...
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WE'RE
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NOTE: The transcript for this program was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.