I'm not trying to age you, but were you alive during this time? if Fr. Coughlin, famous for railing against the commie jews, bankers and warmongers supported long, he couldnt have been bad.
A supporter of Franklin D. Roosevelt's in the 1932 presidential election, Long split with Roosevelt in June 1933 to plan his own presidential bid for 1936 in alliance with the influential Catholic priest and radio commentator Charles Coughlin. Long was assassinated in 1935, and his national movement soon faded, but his legacy continued in Louisiana through his wife, Senator Rose McConnell Long, and his son, Senator Russell B. Long.[1] Music Edit In popular music, singer-songwriter Randy Newman featured Long in two songs on the 1974 album Good Old Boys (Reprise). "Every Man a King", originally written and recorded by Long and Castro Carazo, is followed by "Kingfish" (a reference to Long's famous nickname). Sung from the point of view of Long, "Kingfish" discusses his popularity in his prime, the building of the Airline Highway, and refers to "The Kingfish" as "friend of the working man"—an allusion to Long's unwavering popularity amongst the working classes. It attributes the reason for this to his populist ideologies:
Who took on the Standard Oil men And whipped their ass, Just like he promised he'd do? Ain't no Standard Oil men gonna run this state, Gonna be run by little folks like me and you.