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Huey's roads, Huey's bridges, Huey's schools and Huey's friends & enemies are everywhere that Earl goes. Earl works in Huey's 34-story skyscraper capitol and lives in Huey's governor's mansion-an imitation White House which the Kingfish erected in Baton Rouge so he would "feel at home" when he became President. Back-parish voters eye Earl beadily to see that he acts "like Huey would have wanted...
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...
...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 senators announced that they would not vote for impeachment, no matter what the evidence...
...triumph for Earl-but only a political mosquito bite to the Kingfish. Huey went on about his frenetic business. Earl was all but forgotten...
Russell to the Rescue. Earl cried that he and Huey had settled their differences before the Kingfish died. At first this was a little embarrassing. One night Earl said: "Of course I disagreed with him sometimes, as a brother does." A voice from the crowd said: "We didn't." But Earl drafted his nephew Russell, and Russell told doubters: "The family is satisfied-I think that should satisfy...