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Quote #4
You cannot solve these things through these various and sundry alphabetical codes. You can have the N. R. A. and P. W. A. and C. W. A. and the U. U. G. and G. I. N. and any other kind of dad-gummed lettered code. You can wait until doomsday and see 25 more alphabets, but that is not going to solve this proposition. Why hide? Why quibble? You know what the trouble is. (108-113)
Here's more criticism of the policies of FDR as ineffectual and even detrimental. Sure the country was turning around now, but those greedy few were the ones really benefitting from all this government meddling anyway. And guess who was going to solve all the problems?
Quote #5
This is Huey P. Long talking, United States Senator, Washington, D.C. Write me and let me send you the data on this proposition. (132-133)
Just in case anyone forgot who he was.
Quote #6
If I had the money, and I wish I had the money, I would like to talk to you more often on this line [NBC radio], but I have not got it, and I cannot expect these people to give it to me free except on some rare instance. (145)
Long plays up his "common man" cred by letting everyone know he's too poor to pay for his own airtime. Shmoop doubts that was true, but whatever; he needed to seem relatable to his audience. Politicians today seem to know that having humble beginnings plays well with audiences, even if you're now a senator or Harvard-trained lawyer or rich businessman. You might be one of the elite, but you have to let people know that your parents sure weren't.