“One day in 1932 two newly elected U.S. Senators met socially for the first time in the Washington hotel room of a mutual friend. One was North Carolina’s Robert Rice Reynolds, the other Huey P. Long, the Louisianian Kingfish. After the introduction, Huey looked at Reynolds attentively and said, ‘Don’t I know you from some place?’
” ‘Not to my remembrance, Senator,’ said Reynolds.
” ‘Ever been to Baton Rouge?’ persisted Huey. Reynolds had.
” ‘Why then sure I know you,’ said Huey. ‘You use to run that roller-skating rink down there.’
” ‘That’s right,’ said Reynolds. ‘And now I know you. You used to come in and win all the prizes for fancy skating. That’s when you were down there sellin’ snake oil.’
“The two shook hands again in fond recollection….”
— From ” ‘Our Bob’ Reynolds” in Life magazine (Sept. 8, 1941)