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nadinbrzezinski

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15. So I guess historians who have written of this

Sat Mar 29, 2014, 12:40 AM

Mar 2014

Also disagree with you

Here, a book on Long and others.

http://books.google.com/books?id=22G7x_UN5G0C&pg=PA148&lpg=PA148&dq=huey+long+and+cult+of+personality&source=bl&ots=kcJc_q9hhY&sig=jRQsgmS9y00osa5LMcLIvcN8cKk&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4U02U7KdK4SA2wXX14HAAg&ved=0CDcQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q=huey%20long%20and%20cult%20of%20personality&f=false

I am sorry this hurts your feelings but we are a rather young nation. And I include the first eight years of the present century.

For the record, some historians have argued that one existed around FDR. And don't get me started with Jackson.

I am sorry that hurts your sensibilities though. It is not disagreeing. It is stating a fact. One best observed abroad, but logs in somebody else's eyes do not except the mote in yours.

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