My First Days in The White House [Illustrated Edition]
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This book was published posthumously in 1935, following Long’s assassination on Sunday, September 8, 1935. It is illustrated throughout with political cartoons.
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My First Days in The White House [Illustrated Edition] - Huey Pierce Long
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MY FIRST DAYS IN THE WHITE HOUSE
BY
HUEY P. LONG
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS 3
FOREWORD 4
I. WHEREIN A NEW PRESIDENT TAKES OFFICE 5
II. WHEREIN WE ARRANGE TO OVERHAUL AND REVIVE THE NATION 14
III. WHEREIN WE CARE FOR THE SOUL AND BODY OF A GREAT NATION 22
IV. WHEREIN THE NEW PRESIDENT ENCOUNTERS THE MASTERS OF FINANCE AND DESTINY 32
V. WHEREIN THE MASTERS OF FINANCE ARE OURS 42
VI. WHEREIN REBELLION BREWS AND FADES 52
VII. WHEREIN WE INSPECT THE REVIVED AND GREATER AMERICA 61
APPENDIX 63
REQUEST FROM THE PUBLISHER 65
FOREWORD
This volume is presented as a prophecy by its Author; the late Huey Pierce Long, wherein he endeavored to portray what he would have done had he become President and how he would have conducted national government; setting forth his impressions of what he believed would be the reaction of the people referred to and the public, generally.
This book has been published in good faith, without malice, but with a desire to present to its readers a future America under the guidance of its Author.
I. WHEREIN A NEW PRESIDENT TAKES OFFICE
The bitter campaign of 1936; inauguration and speech of the new president; the selection of a cabinet; laws outlined to survey wealth and poverty; states’ organizations for problems at hand.
My First Days in the White House
It had happened. The people had endorsed my plan for the redistribution of wealth and I was President of the United States. I had just sworn upon the Bible from which my father read to us as children to uphold the Constitution and to defend my country against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
Yet standing there on the flag-draped platform erected above the East portico of the Capitol, delivering my inaugural address, it all seemed unreal. I felt that I was dreaming. The great campaign which was destined to save America from Communism and Fascism was history. Other politicians had promised to remake America; I had promised to sustain it.
The campaign had been bitter. I was cartooned and caricatured unmercifully in some of the newspapers. About the most striking example of the venom of my opposition was shown in a cartoon of an evening newspaper published in the City of New York under the title: Invictus!
which I have had my artist reproduce in this volume.
As my eyes swept the throng before me, I paused in my inaugural address and looked into the face of the retiring president. He seemed worn and tired. He wore the same expression of resigned fatigue that I had observed in the face of President Hoover on Inauguration Day in 1933 when Mr. Roosevelt declared so confidently that: The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
And with all humility, fully conscious of the solemnity of the promise I was making, I laid aside my prepared speech and closed my inaugural address extemporaneously with these words:
I promise life to the guaranties of our immortal document, the Declaration of Independence, which has decreed that all shall be born equal, and by this I mean that children shall not come into this life burdened with debt, but on the contrary, shall inherit the right to life, liberty and such education and training as qualifies them and equips them to take their proper rank in the pursuance of the occupation and vocation wherein they are worth most to themselves and to this country. And now I must be about my work.
The former president arose and seized my hands. He shouted something in my ear but his words were drowned by the roar from the crowd.
I left the platform immediately. The secret service men hurried me into an open car. On the twelve-minute ride to the White House we went down historic Pennsylvania Avenue, where hundreds of thousands of people lined the curb. When I reached the White House, into which so many Presidents had entered in confusion and from which they had departed in bewilderment, I sensed anew the tremendous responsibilities I had assumed as President of the United States.
My family and intimate friends soon arrived from the Capitol. We ate lunch, and then went out to the sheltered grandstand on the Avenue in front of the White House to review the inaugural parade. Two hours later, as the parade ended, I went to the executive offices of the White House, and there sought seclusion.
I was alone. The mass of tasks confronting me was bewildering. I was aware that I would have to disengage myself from the detailed functions of administering the government. I decided to delegate authority to hands not only wholly competent, but generally recognized to be honest and courageous as well.
Installed as the Chief Executive of the United States, and officially acting as such, I drafted a message to the Senate of the United States, as follows:
To the Senate of the United States:
I have the honor to nominate, and by and with your consent will appoint the following members of my cabinet, viz:—
For Secretary of State: William E. Borah of Idaho.
For Secretary of the Treasury: James Couzens of Michigan.
For Secretary of War: Smedley D. Butler of Pennsylvania.
For Secretary of the Navy: Franklin D. Roosevelt of New York.
For Secretary of the Interior: Major-General Lytle Brown of Tennessee.
For Secretary of Commerce: Herbert Hoover of California.
For Attorney General: Frank Murphy of Michigan.
For Secretary of Labor: Edward Keating of Colorado.
The farmers’ organizations throughout the country had for many years been promised an administration of the Department of Agriculture by persons experienced in the farm work and problems. I concluded, at last, to make this promise a reality. Therefore, I announced that my choice for Secretary of Agriculture would be made from the recommendations of the farm organizations.
At a joint meeting these farmers’ agencies unanimously selected one of the best friends I had ever had and whose advice had been of paramount importance to me in the platform I had adopted for agriculture.
It had become clear to my mind that the Postal Service was performing so many business functions of the country that it would have to be eliminated from the category of politics and that the management of the several functions of that enterprise should be entrusted to someone thoroughly acquainted with and recognized as competent in the several fields of its service. I therefore announced that the Postmaster General, as well as all other executives handling the affairs of the Post Office Department, would be