And so it begins
Long eventually decided to place Lindbergh as the new vice-president, (the previous vice-president, had failed to escape Washington D.C.) as he felt that Charles Lindbergh was a highly popular man of the people and would not threaten Longs own power. Macarthur who had seized control of much of the U.S. in a military coup de etat succeeded in cutting a deal with the military junta which essentially controlled the shortlived "Pacific States of America" promising, in the famous California Peace Talks, essentially to leave those states alone allowing them free trade and little federal interference in return for supporting the government in the civil war as well as settling for merely increased autonomy instead of seeking full independance.
With the new struggle just begining it was already clear that the American Union State was in dire need of additional manpower. Fritz Kuhn head of the Ku Klux Klan submitted a plan to start a youth foundation in the AUS, the youth foundation was to show adolescents the purpose of America First, to teach them discipline and above all else loyalty to the New State. While some in the cabinet expressed reservations about this plan, Long is said to have stated "let Kuhn have his daycare".
Long was stubbornly opposed to converting all of the industry under his control to the war effort. His watchword had long been "butter before guns" but facing enemies with far more rescources and strength than himself he was eventually pressured into forcing in Total War.