The Kingfish was a tyrant. He hated my great uncle, who was president of Standard Oil Company of Louisiana. Long blamed Standard Oil for all of the woes of the poor in the state. Long would pay LSU students $5 each and give them a ride on a chartered train from Baton Rouge to New Orleans to support the LSU football team against Tulane. One year my cousin, son of the Standard Oil executive, snuck out and went on the train to the game. His father forbade him to keep the $5 from Long, saying it was blood money. My cousin deposited it in a savings account and promised that he would never use it but would donate it to a Catholic charity on his death, which occurred at age 93 in 2011.
My grandfather also despised Long. Long had shown up to campaign at my grandfathers hunting club dinner. Long sat next to my grandfather at dinner...after Long had eaten all of the duck on his plate, he reached over to take a piece off of my grandfathers’ plate. My grandfather stabbed Long in the hand with his fork. Long was so shocked that he didn’t have the balls to try to have my grandfather arrested.
Thanks for the story. He was a tyrant and a damn good manipulator.
Huey was a nut. His brother Earl Kemp Long was screwy too, with an added side of alcoholism to spice up the drama. The Long political dynasty lasted all the way from the Civil War to the late 1980’s. Neither the Kennedys or the Bushes will ever out endure them.
Guess Long forgot to “duck” your uncle’s fork. GOOD!
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I usually stir it in a 70 year old cast iron skillet from my south Mississippi grandma who’s long since gone for at least 45 min
Till its nutty and dark just short of burning...dark Ox blood color
I’ll use Savoies in the jar later if I didn’t start with enough roux
That’s my gumbo and I’m sticking to it
Thanks for the history lesson. I’ve tried to find info on Huey Long and family since a friend of mine just told me she was related to him.