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Huey Long - The Ultimate Example of That Kind of Yes
Huey Long, who FDR feared more than any other rising leader in the U.S., was assassinated. He left behind a political machine that still ruled in dictatorial terms over Louisiana politics. The Justice Department sent a prosecutor down to Louisiana basically to go bust up the Huey Long machine after his assassination. And he kind of broke it up and then fast forward from the Christian Front trial in 1940 to 1944. In 1944, when the Great Sedition trial finally gets going, there's so many members of Congress,. powerful members of Congress and members of the Senate who are implicated in this plot... They come in and, you know, witch hunt, hoax, they go absolutely crazy against
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