The so-called creation science bill required that every Arkansas school that taught the theory of evolution had to spend an equal amount of time teaching a theory of creation consistent with the Bible: that humans did not evolve out of other species around one hundred thousand years ago, but instead were created by God as a separate species a few thousand years ago For much of the twentieth century, fundamentalists had opposed evolution as being inconsistent with a literal reading of the biblical account of human creation, and in the early 1900s, several states, including Arkansas, outlawed the teaching of evolutionEven after the Supreme Court struck down such bans, most science texts didnt discuss evolution until the 1960sBy the late sixties, a new generation of fundamentalists were at it again, this time arguing that there was scientific evidence to support the Bibles creation story, and evidence that cast doubt on the theory of evolutionEventually, they came up with the idea of requiring that schools that taught evolution had to give comparable attention to creation science Because of intense lobbying efforts by fundamentalist groups like FLAG (Family, Life, America under God) and the governors support, Arkansas was the first state to legally embrace the creation science fake gucci tote bag notionThe bill passed without much difficulty: we didnt have many scientists in the legislature, and many politicians were afraid to offend the conservative Christian groups, who were riding high after electing a President and a governorAfter Governor White signed the bill, there was a storm of protest from educators who didnt want to be forced to teach religion as science, from religious leaders who wanted to preserve the constitutional separation of church and state, and from ordinary citizens who didnt want Arkansas to become the laughingstock of the nation Frank White became an object of ridicule for the opponents of the creation science lawGeorge Fisher, the Arkansas Gazette cartoonist who drew me on a tricycle, began presenting the governor with a half-peeled banana in his hand, implying that he hadnt fully evolved and was perhaps the proverbial missing link between humans and chimpanzeesWhen he started feeling the heat, Governor White protested that he hadnt read the bill before he signed it, digging himself into a deeper holeEventually, the creation science bill was declared unconstitutional by Judge Bill Overton, who did a masterly job at the trial and wrote a clear, compelling opinion saying the bill required the teaching of religion, not science, and therefore breached dior the Constitutions wall between church and stateAttorney General Steve Clark declined to appeal the decision Frank White had problems that went beyond the legislative sessionHis worst move was sending prospective appointees for the Public Service Commission to be interviewed by the Arkansas Power and Light Company, which had been seeking substantial increases in utility rates for the last few yearsWhen the story came out, the press pounded the governor over itPeoples electric rates were going up far more steeply than the car tags hadNow they had a governor who wanted to give APL prior approval of the people who would decide whether or not the company got to raise its rates even higher Then there were the verbal gaffesWhen the governor announced a trade mission to Taiwan and Japan, he told the press how glad he was to be going to the Middle EastThe incident gave George Fisher the inspiration for one of his funniest cartoons: the governor and his party getting off an airplane in the middle of a desert, complete with palm trees, pyramids, robed Arabs, and a camelWith banana in hand, he looks around and says, Splendid! 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While all this was going on, I made a few political trips out of stateBefore I lost, I had been invited by Governor John Evans to speak cartier santos wit at the Idaho Jefferson-Jackson Day dinnerAfter I got beat he asked me to come on anyway I went to Des Moines, Iowa, for the first time, to speak to a Democratic Party workshop for state and local officialsMy friend Sandy Berger asked me to come to Washington to have lunch with Pamela Harriman, wife of the famous Democratic statesman Averell Harriman, who had been FDRs envoy to Churchill and Stalin, governor of New York, and our negotiator at the Paris peace talks with North VietnamHarriman met Pamela during World War II when she was married to Churchills son and living at 10 Downing StreetThey married thirty years later, after his first wife diedPamela was in her early sixties and still a beautiful womanShe wanted me to join the board of Democrats for the 80s, a new political action committee she had formed to raise money and promote ideas to help Democrats come back into powerAfter the lunch, I accompanied Pam to her first television interviewShe was nervous and wanted my adviceI told her to relax and speak in the same conversational tone shed used during our lunchI joined her board and over the next few years spent a number of great evenings at the Harrimans Georgetown house, with its political memorabilia and impressionist art treasuresWhen I became President, I named Pamela chanel handbag knockoffs Harriman ambassador to France, where she had gone to live after World War II and the breakup of her first marriageShe was wildly popular and immensely effective with the French, and very happy there until she died, on the job, in 1997 By the spring, the governor looked vulnerable in the next election and I began to think of a rematchOne day, I drove from Little Rock to Hot Springs to see MotherAbout halfway there, I pulled into the parking lot of the gas station and store at LonsdaleThe man who owned it was active in local politics, and I wanted to see what he thought about my chancesHe was friendly but noncommittalAs I walked back to my car, I ran into an elderly man in overallsHe said, Arent you Bill Clinton? 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