This reminds me that in the early 1960s Earl Long (younger brother of Huey) tried to calm down Southerners who were talking about a new Civil War by reminding them, "The feds have got the atom bomb.” https://twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/status/1107429621694369793 …
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Replying to @Bencjacobs
Ah, I might have misremembered the details from A.J. Liebling's The Earl of Louisiana.
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Replying to @HeerJeet
One of the two great books about the Longs along with T. Harry Williams
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Yes! I've read both! Although I suppose All the King's Men might also count.
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ATKM is more about agonizing about what New Deal Liberals ought to think of H. Long than it is about the Longs themselves tho. (not to knock the book, which is an all time great, but.)
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Fair.
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