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Having spent more than half his life in the U.S. Senate, Louisiana's Russell Long last week announced that he will retire when his current term ends in 1987. Son of the "Kingfish," Huey P. Long, Louisiana's legendary populist Governor and Senator, "Princefish" Russell, 66, came to the Senate in 1948. Enthroned as the powerful chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, he became an acknowledged master of the tax code, manipulating it to protect his home state's industries. In a series of filibusters in the 1950s and '60s, Long's bayou banter helped slow civil rights legislation; later...
...Princefish." Probably the strangest aspect of the Dodd Affair was the havoc it wrought on the once-promising prospects of Russell Long. As chairman of the powerful Finance Committee and Senate Majority Whip, the "Princefish" (his father, the demagogic Huey, was the "Kingfish"), just a few short months ago had every reason to hope that he would follow Mike Mansfield as Majority Leader, perhaps even emerge one day as a vice-presidential candidate. But his wild rants and arrogant tactics in defense of Dodd-coming shortly after an equally bizarre defense of his discredited presidential-campaign financing bill-irrevocably alienated...
Thirty years after the flamboyantly autocratic "Kingfish" was assassinated in a hallway of the state capitol in Baton Rouge, the man who used to be known back home as the "Princefish," Louisiana's Senator Russell Long, 46, offered some revisionist thinking. "By any objective standards," said Huey's son, taking the long view, "Huey Long was the best Governor Louisiana ever had." As a matter of fact, said the Senator, recalling what Dad dictated in the way of social and welfare programs (abolition of the poll tax, free night schools for illiterates, free textbooks for children, doubling...
...held no posts weightier than president of the L.S.U. student government, and executive counsel to Louisiana's Governor-who happened to be his Uncle Earl. Russell's biggest political asset was a remarkable physical resemblance to his father, Huey. the Kingfish himself. He was dubbed the Princefish. That was all right with Russell; at 13, he had said of his father: "When I grow up. I want to be exactly like him." But somewhere along the way. Russell Long changed his mind...
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