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*Because of his radical populist views and his strong desire to help poor white people, Huey P. Long was considered one of the most "dangerous" men in America by none other than Franklin Delano Rosenfeld himself.
So it really should come as no surprise to anyone that Long was assassinated by a Jew.
After all, Long planned to oppose FDR for the presidency in 1936, and, once elected, he planned to confiscate wealth from the Wall Street investor class and use the money to help poor White people.
The world would probably be a different place today had Long become president and kept the United States out of WWII.
That is no doubt why FDR and the Jews had him killed.*
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Huey Long was Governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1930. A nominal Democrat, Huey Long was a radical populist, of a sort we are unfamiliar with in our day. As Governor, he sponsored many reforms that endeared him to the rural poor. An ardent enemy of corporate interests, he championed the "little man" against the rich and privileged. A farm boy from the piney woods of North Louisiana, he was colorful, charismatic, controversial, and always just skating on the edge. He gave himself the nickname "Kingfish" because, he said, "I'm a small fish here in Washington. But I'm the Kingfish to the folks down in Louisiana."
Huey Long was the determined enemy of Wall Street, bankers and big business and he was also a determined enemy of the Roosevelt administration because he saw it as too beholden to these powerful forces.
Huey Long did not suffer from excessive modesty. A high-school dropout who taught himself law and got a law degree in only one year of study, Long was confident he would become President of the United States in 1936. So confident was he that he wrote a book entitled My First Days in the White House in which he named his cabinet (including President Roosevelt as Secretary of the Navy and President Hoover as Secretary of Commerce) and in which he conducted long imaginary conversations with FDR and Hoover designed to humiliate them and show their subservience to the boy from the piney woods of Louisiana.
The Kingfish wanted the government to confiscate the wealth of the nation's rich and privileged. He called his program Share Our Wealth. It called upon the federal government to guarantee every family in the nation an annual income of $5,000, so they could have the necessities of life, including a home, a job, a radio and an automobile. He also proposed limiting private fortunes to $50 million, legacies to $5 million, and annual incomes to $1 million. Everyone over age 60 would receive an old-age pension. His slogan was "Every Man A King."
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Transcribed directly from the Colliers 1966 encyclopedia book.
In Louisiana, Huey Long symbolized the rise to political power of lower-class whites as against the previous domination of state government by a working alliance of business interests and the political machine of New Orleans. Going beyond mere sybolic gratification, Long pleased his followers by securing many material benefits, including free textbooks to all children in the public and private (religious) schools, construction of a network of free roads and bridges, increased expenditures for public education, and elimination of the poll tax. To his further credit, Long never exploited the race issue. At the same time, the level of taxation was increased markedly, and much of the increase being borne by consumers directly, and Long erected a virtual personal dictatorship in Louisiana through the partisan administration of benefits, punitive actions against his opponents, and alteration of the election laws.
In the Senate, Huey early broke with the Roosevelt administration, conducted several spectacular filibusters against New Deal measures, and developed his own rival program --"Share Our Wealth"--by which poverty would be eliminated by redistributing confiscated personal fortunes. It was thought that Long, relying on his "Share Our wealth" following, would try for presidency in 1936. However, on Sept. 8, 1935, Huey was shot and fatally wounded by Dr. Carl A. Weiss, Jr., in the state capitol at Baton Rouge. Long's bodyguards killed the assassin on the spot; Long himself died on September 10th. Although Dr. Weiss was a member of a prominent anti-Long family, his motive probably was personal, not political; he believed that Long had sullied his family's honor.
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