Terry McAuliffe, chairman of Hillary Clinton’s Presidential Campaign and Harriet Miers, longtime George W. Bush friend and staffer, one-time Supreme Court nominee and now active in the planning of the George Bush Presidential Library, met and visited while both were touring the Clinton Library. You couldn’t find two more loyal people: Harriet for George and Laura Bush and Terry for Bill and Hillary Clinton.
Read MoreAl Gore Wins and Yunus Visits
Former Vice President Al Gore, along with the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. Recognized for his strong advocacy of environmental concerns and in large part as a result of the Academy Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth
Read MoreThe Polarization of Children’s Health Care
President Bush’s veto of a $35 billion expansion of the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) has brought into question the partisan politics that has become the norm in Washington. The President feels the spending increase is a ploy by the Democrats to take a step toward “their goal of government-run health care for every American.”
Read MoreTraveling the Delta
Earlier this week, I had the pleasure of spending the day in the Arkansas and Mississippi Delta. Since our school opened in 2005, Clinton School students have performed public service projects in this part of the country and this year are working on projects based in Marvell and Helena-West Helena in Phillips County, Ark.
Read MoreLittle Rock School Board Runoff
As a former president of the Little Rock School Board, I watched Tuesday’s Little Rock School Board runoff election with great interest. Congratulations to incumbent Michael Daugherty who defeated a very strong opponent, Anna Swaim by a 53-47 percent margin.
Read MoreOn Politics and Football
Charlie Cook, of Washington D.C., editor of the Cook Political Report, an NBC commentator and certainly one of the nation’s most respected political analysts, spoke Sunday at a leadership program of the Southern Legislative Conference in partnership with the University of Arkansas System
Read MoreA Decade of Change
Downtown business leaders were thrilled because they, like Clinton, believed it would serve as an anchor for the emerging River Market Entertainment District. They hoped it would spur retail and residential interest as well.
Read MoreMaurice Mitchell: They Don’t Make ’em Any Better
Maurice Mitchell is the “Godfather” of Arkansas’s legal profession. He is also one of the best human beings I have ever known. His work ethic is second to none and his civic and charitable leadership sets the highest standard. I take every opportunity I can to learn from him.
Read More2008 Presidential Election Predictions: The Early Line
For the last three election cycles (2002, 2004 and 2006), I have taught undergraduate seminars on election analysis. So, in preparation for some upcoming meetings and speeches, here’s my very early line on the 2008 presidential tickets:
Read MoreTwo Remarkable Women: Ruth Lincoln and Caroline Stevenson
Last night, I was among a large crowd at Pulaski Heights United Methodist Church to see Caroline Stevenson, a wonderful Clinton School volunteer, receive the 2007 Bishop Kenneth Hicks Peace Award. Caroline is an active member of Women’s Action for New Directions (WAND) which empowers women to act politically to reduce militarism and violence.
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