Pryor Center

Randy Dixon of the Pryor Center continues a series on Arkansas’ modern governors with Frank White’s single term, his 1982 rematch with Bill Clinton and his life after office.

Randy Dixon digs into the Pryor Center archives to revisit Frank White’s 1980 upset of Bill Clinton, his push for austerity and the creation science law that defined his single term.

Randy Dixon revisits Bill Clinton’s first term as governor, from the car tag increase to the Fort Chaffee Cuban refugee crisis to his 1980 loss to Frank White.

Randy Dixon revisits Joe Purcell, the two-term attorney general and three-term lieutenant governor known as “Honest Joe” who served six days as Arkansas governor in 1979.

Randy Dixon of the Pryor Center looks at David Pryor's two terms as governor, from a failed constitutional rewrite to the Coon Dog Plan, Fort Chaffee refugees and a U.S. Senate appointment.

Randy Dixon of the Pryor Center revisits Bob Riley, the World War II veteran and two-term lieutenant governor who served 11 days as Arkansas governor in January 1975.

Randy Dixon returns to the Pryor Center archives with the four years Dale Bumpers spent as Arkansas governor, from reorganizing state government to unseating Sen. J. William Fulbright in 1974.

The Pryor Center's Randy Dixon traces Dale Bumpers' 1970 rise from Charleston lawyer to governor, with archival audio of his campaign, his win over Orval Faubus and his defeat of Rockefeller.

The Pryor Center's Randy Dixon returns with part two on Arkansas' 37th governor: Winthrop Rockefeller's rise from Petit Jean Mountain to the governor's office, told in KATV archival audio.

Randy Dixon of the Pryor Center traces Winthrop Rockefeller's path from a Rockefeller childhood to Texas oil fields, wartime Okinawa, then Arkansas, with historian John Kirk in part one of two.