BILL CLINTON AND ORVAL FAUBUS: TWO POLITICAL CAREERS ENTWINED.(News)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | September 25, 1997 | Copyright

Bill Clinton was 11 years old when Arkansas Gov. Orval Faubus' troops kept black students out of Little Rock Central High, igniting a constitutional crisis that shadowed both of their careers.

For years afterward, the two famous Arkansas political figures crossed paths again and again, their lives headed in starkly different directions.

As a young politician, Clinton sought advice from Faubus. As a young governor, Clinton fired him. The future president defeated the former governor in a 1986 Democratic primary, and settled Faubus-era school desegregation ...

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