long made investments in public infrastructure, including hospitals, schools and roads, and long abhorred massive wealth inequality. in typically fashion, he once used a barb quu metaphor to explain the problems with wealth concentration. >> how many men ever went to a barbecue and would let one man take off the table what's intended for nine tenths of the people to eat. the only way you'll ever be able to feed the balance of, is to make that man bring back some of the grub he's got for business with. >> how are you going to feed the balance of the people? long was no angel, unrepentantly corrupt, deeply paranoid and personally ambitious to the fault. in the end he was assassinated by a political rival. but along beyond his personal failings and recall the genius of the political -- forget bobby