I don’t care for Mike Huckabee.
But I will tell you this...Win Rockefeller....both the father and the son....were fantastic people.
Without Winthrop Rockefeller there would be no Republican Party in Arkansas at all. Winthrop Rockefeller served as Arkansas governor reluctantly...every reform he tried to make was opposed bitterly by the Democratic machine. They started rumors about him, they called him names, they pulled every trick.....and in the end they drove him out of office a broken (but not bitter) man. He is a hero of mine.
Win Paul Rockefeller, his son, had one overriding interest....and that was the Boy Scouts. There are a lot of things a multi-billionaire can do on weekends and most of them don’t choose to dress up in Boy Scout uniforms and go to camporees. Win Paul would have been one of the greatest governors Arkansas ever had. He spent his own dime and scoured the country for economic development in Arkansas and never took any credit.
I drove to Little Rock to view Win Paul’s body lying in state. He and Ronald Reagan are about the only politicians I would make the long drive to honor.
My state is better off because of the (highly opposed) efforts of the Rockefeller family to try to establish a two party system here.
Well said. This Arkansan couldn’t agree more!
That is a very touch story about Win Paul’s death. I understand he had a handicapped child too. But he supported abortion.
Thanks for your compelling point of view about Winthrop Rockefeller. Too often, FReepers go for the black-or-white view of public personalities.