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...Fool. "There may be smarter men than me but they ain't in Louisiana." Huey Long likes to brag. His enemies will agree that he is no fool but they will also contend that his smartness is far from admirable. An incredible cross between Iowa's Brookhart, New York City's Jimmy Walker and Chicago's Big Bill Thompson, Democrat Long has developed a political technique in which he is too intelligent to believe himself. Impervious to insult, he knows the trick of playing politics in its rawest, crudest form and he plays it with a vim, dash and audacity...
Where there ain't no ancient history to bother...
Where there ain't no law but honesty, no evidence but facts...
Where between the verdick and the rope there ain't no onter acts...
Typical scene: Foster refusing at first to surrender, "I wanna show the world that I don't like it. To show the world that 7 object to it. Do ya think that I wanna die? Ya think that I ain't a human being? Ya think I don't wanna live? Ya think it's nice to wait in that rotten cell, day after day. week after week, month after month, and see men die, one after another, see lights go dim. hear the whine of that motor, and wait and wait and wait, and die a million times every...