Eleventh Commandment of Politics (dead woman or live man)

[Wilson Gray]

FWIW, I thought that it was "a dead _girl_ or a live boy," supposedly
said by or about Huey "The Kiingfish" Long. I have neither cites nor
memory of how I was brought to that conclusion. It's just one one of
those things that I thought that I "knew," till now.

-Wilson

On 1/8/07, William Salmon <william.salmon at yale.edu> wrote:
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> I thought it was "a dead woman or a live boy"?
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> >cardinal rule in politics: never get caught in bed with a dead woman
> >or a live  man.
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