Reply #11: He's like Andrew Jackson. [View All]

Demigod to some, Demagogue to others.

He did scare the shit out of FDR, though!

Every man a king!

He also was a master of electioneering: at one event in southern LA he would break out a few Creole or Cajun phrases and tell of his loving old grandma dragging him to the local Catholic church every Sunday, then in northern LA he would tell the same about his loving old grandpa being at the Baptist church every time the doors were open with lots of southern ruralisms for effect instead of any French!

Hey, as his mayor of NOLA asked the president at a dinner where Huey told him not to say a word at the table, "How you like dem ersters, Frank?" to Huey's mortification... He held court at the Roosevelt Hotel (now the Fairmont) and had a 4 lane highway from its front door to the capitol in BR so he could speed from work to home...

But ask the oldtimers in LA, and they'll tell you who paved the roads and made LSU a showcase and put in all the bridges...