08/02/2026 17:27

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I’m glad that, after I became President, I got to meet the grown-up Larry Taunton and his children. Bill Rainer was so stunned he could hardly get through his speech. Maggie Cum Loudly. He sat there alone for several minutes, peeling the label off the empty beer bottle and thinking about how quickly things could change.

I had to speak at yet another rally in Alread, a remote community in Van Buren County, in the mountains of north-central Arkansas. Other men were watching the same show. That also explains how you knew about the note in the next day's story. Finally, two elected state officials agreed to co-chair the campaign, Agriculture Commissioner John White and Land Commissioner Bob Armstrong.