Flamboyant Huey Long back in new biography, star-studded movie

Posted 9/23/06

BATON ROUGE, La. – For his first meeting with presidential candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt, in 1932, Huey P. Long dressed in his flamboyant Kingfish mode: plaid suit, purple shirt, pink necktie.

During lunch, Roosevelt’s mother gazed down the …

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