Russell Long: A Life in Politics

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russell long 251 Agnew, Spiro, 180, 199, 210 Aid to Families with Dependent Children program (AFDC), 168–69, 171–76, 202, 208 Aiken, George, 88 Air Quality Act, 165 Alcée Fortier High School, 19 Allen, Oscar K., 19, 21, 26, 105 American Council of Capital Formation , 206 American Football League, 150 American Medical Association, 44 American Student Union, 63 Anderson, Clinton, 4, 88, 130 Anti-Long faction. See factionalism anti-Trumanism, 62 Appalachian Aid Bill, 130 Area Redevelopment Act, 120 Army Corps of Engineers, 151 Articles of Confederation, 74 Bartlett, Charles, 210 basing-point price system, 45 Bass, Jack, 191, 209 Batista, Fulgencio, 123 Baton Rouge, La., 11, 17, 19, 23–25, 27–28, 61, 64, 84, 101–2, 104–6, 157, 160, 206; Bus Boycott, 84 Bay of Pigs invasion, 7, 124, 155 Becnel, Thomas, 161 Bell Telephone Company, 15 Bernhard, Robert, 101 Blackmun, Harry, 163–64 Board of Censors (La.), 22 Boggs, Hale, 4, 58–60, 62–63, 65–69, 150 Bouanchaud, Hewitt, 15 Broussard, Edwin, 21 Brown, H. Rap, 144 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka , Kansas, 7, 81–83, 85, 87, 99, 121, 131; Brown v. Board (II), 82 Brownell, Herbert, 86 Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981, 202 Byrd, Harry, 53, 122 Carmichael, Stokely, 144 Carswell, Harold, 163 Carter, Jimmy, 156, 159, 188–92, 195, 197, 202; economic stimulus tax cuts, 192; 1977 energy proposals, 190 Castro, Fidel, 123 Cellar, Emmanuel, 87 Chicago, Ill., 155 Chicago Daily News, 176 Chrysler Corporation, 192 Church, Frank, 92, 166 Civil Rights Act of 1957, 86–95, 97, 112, 137; Anderson-Aiken amendment, 89–90; O’Mahoney-Kefauver-Church amendment, 92–94 Civil Rights Act of 1960, 108–15, 119 Civil Rights Act of 1964, 133–39 Civil Rights Bill of 1966, 141 Civil Rights Commission, 108, 133 index index 252 Clark, Clem, 36 Cold War, 3–4, 7–8, 50, 54, 69, 79, 96, 122, 124, 126, 146, 155, 199, 204 Committee to Re-elect the President , 179 Community Action Programs, 129 conservative coalition, 42, 44, 71, 77 Consolidated Rail Corporation, 185 Constitution (U.S.), 74–75, 93, 134–35; Fifteenth Amendment, 91; Fourteenth Amendment, 134 Constitution of 1898 (La.), 14 containment, 41, 50, 51, 52, 71, 79, 80, 96, 97, 118, 125, 147 Coolidge, Calvin, 201 Cooper, John Sherman, 166 Cooper-Church amendment, 165–66 countercyclical aid, 191 Crescent City Democratic Association , 58–59 Creswell Elementary School (Shreveport, La.), 13 Cuba, 123–26; Cuban Missile Crisis , 125–26, 146 Cyr, Paul, 16, 18 Davis, Jimmie, 29, 31, 109, 131–32 debt ceiling, 164 Declaration of Constitutional Principles , 85, 95 Declaration of Independence, 74 Democratic Party, 5, 6, 14, 34, 42, 49, 55, 70, 86, 127, 131, 154–55, 159–60, 188–89, 197, 202, 206, 209–10; Central Committee (La.), 14; Louisiana, 14–16, 19, 22, 29–31, 34, 57, 60–61, 63, 68, 154, 162, 203; National Campaign Headquarters, Watergate Hotel, 179; national convention of 1952, 70; national convention of 1960, 119; national convention of 1968, 155 Department of Energy, 192 Department of Justice, 46; Civil Rights Division, 86 Department of the Judiciary, 86 depletion allowance, 153, 182, 191 DeVries, Walter, 191, 209 Dirksen, Everett, 160 disfranchisement, 43, 46, 49, 69–70, 90, 108 Dixiecrats, 34, 62, 99 Dodd, Thomas, 159 Dodd, William, 61 Douglas, Paul, 4, 70, 75, 109–10, 112, 217 Dynamite Squad, 17 Eastland, James, 87, 108, 110, 114, 116, 134, 136, 148, 209 Economic Cooperation Act of 1948, 52–53 Economic Opportunity Act. See Omnibus Anti-Poverty Bill of 1964 Economic Recovery Tax Act of 1981, 185, 202 Edwards, Edwin, 25, 162 Egypt-Israeli Peace Treaty, 188 Eisenhower, Dwight, 55, 70, 72, 76–77, 79, 81, 85, 96–98, 117, 124; presidential administration , 71–73, 78, 80, 86–87, 91, 92, 94–95, 101, 108, 123, 146 Eisenhower Doctrine, 96–99, 146, 167 Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, 130 index 253 Ellender, Allen, 33, 42, 49, 53, 109, 116, 136, 139–40, 148, 161–62, 209 Emergency Housing Bill (1958), 72 Emergency Unemployment Compensation program, 181 Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), 158–59, 182–87, 192–95, 202, 205–6, 208, 234; compared to Share Our Wealth, 193–95 energy crisis of 1970s, 179–80, 189–92 Energy Transportation Security Act of 1974, 180–81 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, 134 Equal Rights Amendment, 167, 198 Export-Import Bank, 181 factionalism, Longite/Anti-Longite, 3–4, 8, 28...