Do you believe Huey had a deduct box?

That would be my story too if I were Seymour

It was most likely a euphemism for various bank accounts and money caches. As to what happened to it, he probably spent it as fast as it came in. Running a quasi dictatorship is expensive. Whatever was left was skimmed by cronies after he died.

I am not a Long partisan nor a Long hater. Any appraisal of him has to be in the context of the times and social conditions that gave rise to him. He craved power more than money, he was charismatic, and he could have been a dangerous man in national office. OTOH he dragged Louisiana kicking and screaming into the twentieth century, and while he was corrupt, he was no more corrupt than his predecessors. At least the average man got some tangible benefits under the Long regime

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There was a poster here that said it was real because his mother always told him how she had to put part of her paycheck in it.

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Not sure why he didn't refer to where she went to college as Newcomb. Makes me suspicious.

"If fascism comes to America it will be on a program of anti-racism" -- Huey Long

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"If fascism comes to America it will be on a program of anti-racism" -- Huey Long

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Huey was like George Wallace-race baited because it worked, but had no personal racial animosity toward blacks, and in fact, did a few things that benefited them when he was governor. If he thought it was to his advantage, he would have been at the head of the civil rights parade.

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He craved power more than money, he was charismatic, and he could have been a dangerous man in national office.

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Saying Huey was charismatic is like saying Hitler was a decent inspirational speaker.