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Contemplating all this, the cynical wondered if Earl wasn't booby-trapping himself. His nephew Russell had been left a priceless heritage: he looked and acted like Huey. The sight of Russell up on the stump "just like his daddy" stirred the faithful as Earl could never stir them; Russell had gotten more applause than Earl at Earl's own inauguration. Moreover, Russell was smart, personable, well-educated and had a good war record. He was a comer...
Power. But whatever the future held, Earl's obeisance to the shades of the Kingfish had paid him well. He had used Huey's tricks, Huey's share-tbe-wealth philosophy and Huey's lavishness with political promises for an ironic end-to prove to himself that he was a better man than Huey. And he had squeezed more dictatorial powers from Louisiana's supine legislature than Huey-or any governor of any U.S. state-had ever held...
...controls the Civil Service Commission which had been independent of politics for eight years. He has pulled Louisiana State University-where the bonfire of scandal burst after Huey's death-back under the governor's domination...
Human Hospital. As governor, Huey made Earl attorney for the Orleans Parish inheritance-tax collector-a $15,000 job he had promised to abolish in order to use the money for a tuberculosis hospital. Earl was soon earning his keep. In 1929, the legislature, infuriated by Huey's browbeating, set out to impeach him. In the midst of the excitement the Kingfish threw himself on a bed and wept. But with Earl's help, he made secret forays and counterattacks. Huey had two methods of persuasion: cash and threats. On the eve of the impeachment proceedings, 15 state...
That saved Huey and made him a national figure. Earl, beaded with the righteous sweat of his endeavors, thought he deserved higher honors. But Huey paid no attention. For one thing, Earl's wild temper and mode of fighting made him unpopular. During the impeachment proceedings he sank his teeth into one legislator's throat, and chewed until he was pulled off. Later, one Frank P. Krieger complained that Earl had all but bitten his finger off. Also, Huey seemed to have had doubts about Earl's political savvy...