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talking non-stop for 10 hours and 35 minutes, Huey Long informed his
fellow senators that he wasn't a bit tired. "I would just as soon stay
here and go ten more hours," he said. "I am in hog heaven here
discussing this thing."
It was 10:30 on the night of June 12, 1935, and Sen. Long had been
yakking since noon, trying to prevent a vote that he knew he would
lose. The Senate was prepared to pass an extension of President
Franklin Roosevelt's National Recovery Act, which Long opposed, and he
was trying to talk the bill to death. Huey was a very entertaining
talker, so spectators packed the gallery, many of them Shriners in town
for a convention. "I seem to have new inspiration," Long announced. "I
seem to hear a voice that says, 'Speak ten hours more.'"
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The article deftly dodges the issue of which party was on which side of the civil rights debate. It conveniently omits the party affiliations of Strom Thurmond and Robert Byrd and muddies the issue by referring to "southerners" when it should say "democrats".
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Don't forget how Huey Long exited politics. He was assassinated in the Louisiana Capitol building.
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My great-great-great-great-(great?)-uncle.
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