Win Rockefeller Honored With Exhibit At The Capitol
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
Late Governor Winthrop Rockefeller is being
remembered through an exhibit that opened at the state Capitol
today.
The exhibit tells the story of how Rockefeller came to Arkansas
50 years ago to visit a friend, fell in love with the state and
decided to stay.
He became the 37th governor on a reform platform and almost
single-handedly lifted the state Republican party from obscurity by
serving back-to-back two-year terms.
His son, current Lieutenant Governor Win Rockefeller, says when
he was running for the position he was inspired by his father`s
bust and portrait outside the office he now occupies.
The exhibit in the state Capitol includes a pair of
Rockefeller`s famous boots bearing his "W-R" trademark emblem.
Among other items are a letter he wrote home from a foxhole in
World War Two, a photo of him hand-in-hand with black leaders while
mourning the assassination of Martin Luther King and political
cartoons depicting his reforms and struggles with a
Democratic-controlled state legislature.
Posted by Mike Hellgren
