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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Budget on Main Street. The man really responsible for the Democratic split is none other than the lame-duck (by XXII Amendment) President of the U.S., whom Johnson had written off last January in his own "State of the Union" message to fellow Democrats. With the help of a booming economy, Dwight Eisenhower has managed to sell his balanced budget on Main Street. (Says New Hampshire Republican Norris Cotton: "A lot of fellows used to tell me how alarmed people were back home about the budget, but I never believed it. My voters never cared about these big problems down...
Locked in his room at a mental hospital in Galveston early last week, Louisiana's Governor Earl Long was raging. He wanted out, demanded that he be permitted to return to his home state. He hired lawyers; then he fired them when they refused to do his bidding. At length, he implored his wife Blanche to get him released, promised her that he would submit to psychiatric treatment in New Orleans. Blanche Long, worried about her husband's loss of weight and fearing for his weak heart, agreed. After Earl signed a paper releasing his wife and state...
...once he was back in his own state, Louisiana's mad Governor erupted once more. Scarcely had he signed in at New Orleans' Ochsner Foundation Hospital than he began demanding his release again. For three hours his doctors tried to outtalk him, but Earl insisted that he wanted only to drive to his farm-or maybe a friend's farm-where he could rest. He was, after all, still the Governor of Louisiana; nobody could stop him, he cried. But wife Blanche...
Sure enough, a half hour later, a white, unlabeled, state-police Ford sped by. A trooper was driving, and with him sat Earl Long. In the back sat an oldtime Long friend, Physician-Oilman (reputed annual income: $7,000,000 to $8,000,000) Martin O. Miller. The two detectives radioed the word to the sheriff's office, swung behind the Ford and began trailing it. In a few minutes came a message from Sheriff Clemmons: "The papers have been signed. Put your plan into effect...
...What's going on?" he cried. Thompson told him about the commitment papers. "Goddam! Goddam you all," screamed Earl. "You all are doing it again. Goddam you, I'll get you! I'll get all of you!" Turning wildly to a deputy whose father holds a state job with the Department of Corrections, Long yelled: "Your old man just lost his job!" As Earl thundered and cried, a crowd of incredulous onlookers pressed in close. Frantically, Earl boomed: "You all look here! You all look...