Russell B. Long

he said don't he said don't tax you don't tax me tax that fellow behind the tree

It sounds like me quoting Senator Russell Long of Louisiana.

Hey, thanks a lot, Kyle.

Appreciate it.

And, uh, as I w- I went up on the roof to kind of look out over the, the city, uh, all the tear gas going on and all the riots.

Then I came back down the hotel- And just getting in the hotel, rather elevator next to me, was Governor John McKithan, along with our very popular US senator, Russell Long, and the, uh, president of the Senate, Mike O'Keefe.

And, uh, I think I saw O'Keefe and waved or something, but they just went on up the elevator.

O'Keefe told me later they were going up to, uh, see Humphrey to try to give it, convince Humphrey to put John McKithan on the ticket as vice president.

What do you want me to say?

You know why I'm laughing? Because it's like the story that Russell Long told me about his Uncle Earl.

When he, when he wasn't going to fulfill a campaign promise and they came to collect, Russell Long said, "Well, I'm not going to tell him," and Earl said, "Tell him I lied." That may be the only answer they have.

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That'd be the only-- I mean, you just don't-- There is-- Well, you said you, you know, you voted for the war and gas prices.

By cutting a deal with the NFL.

He and Russell Long, they were like, if you want your antitrust status, you got to give me a team.

This is a true story.

It's a great

political deal.

Why not? So Russell Long

and Hale Boggs got the NFL franchise here.

This is the truth.

I think that it's a beautiful city.

You know, Russell Long said something that stuck with me when I was a young man.

He said, "You know, it looks like a major world capital." When you go to Washington, the buildings, and it, and it, and it screams Republican, small R republican at you.

It does.

By cutting a deal with the NFL.

He and Russell Long, they were like, if you want your antitrust status, you got to give me a team.

This is a true story.

It's a great

political deal.

Why not? So Russell Long

and Hale Boggs got the NFL franchise here.

This is the truth.

...

this, uh, I don't know what the personal relationship was between them.

Yeah.

When Dole, uh, ran for majority leader, um, you were very active in that.

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... to win over the, uh, the undecided?

It's, it's almost p- personal.

Yeah.

Uh, so, uh, the EITC was invented in the seventies.

It was-- in the US it was sponsored by Senator Russell Long, and it is now being copied around the world.

Although I guess there were earlier antecedents, but the US was the first country to do, uh, EITC.

Uh, the other-- I wanted just to remind you of the different kinds of risk management that the government offers.