With all due respect, it would have been worth mentioning that the reasons FDR has a much stronger legacy regarding the New Deal than Huey Long included that FDR acquiesced in a politically motivated IRS investigation of Long and his associates which essentially turned up nothing, and that Long was killed in 1935! The latter is a pretty staggering omission, I would think.
(Doug is talking here about my most recent column, titled "No Commoner Obama.") Well that's a very fair point, Doug. I don't actually think it negates the point I was making, but it's certainly theoretically true that Huey Long might have been remembered differently--or even elected president, who knows?--had he lived longer. I should have made mention of it, you're right. Thanks.
on January 4, 2010
