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One HUGE difference between Huey Long and Clinton is that Long was actually quite an entertaining speaker. Another difference is that Long's wife was pretty much in the background.

You make a good point about the role of his wife even though she probably had the equivalent of a Wellesley (sp) education, because she was a school teacher in the thirties in Louisiana. The literacy rate was very low. No offence to anyone, it was low in Texas as well. Maybe she opened a few doors on a much smaller scale than PIAPS did, but I’m sure Hillary opened many doors for the boy from the state with the biggest watermelons too.

The thirties had great orators like Hitler, Churchill, and FDR. Huey was another. We are not impressed when we hear Clinton, but when he is talking to his sheeple they swoon. I can say this, because I’m a Southern Christian boy, but Clinton would have made a great preacher.

Thanks very much for running the book club; I enjoy the heck out of it.