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Clinton Unplugged

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That's the title of a Jay Brummett's recent column from the Arkansas News Bureau.We already knew it, well before he told us so Friday evening at his presidential library during an otherwise jovial and comedic reunion conversation by three former Democratic governors. Bill Clinton always agonized about letting executions happen. After a long court-ordered hiatus, the imposition of the death penalty returned to the state late in Clinton?s long governorship, in June 1990. It turned out that the inmate to be killed, murderer John Edward Swindler, had been befriended by Clinton?s own good friend, Freddie Nixon, who was doing a prison ministry. Nixon had worked on Clinton?s first gubernatorial staff. She was, and is, married to the Methodist minister, Vic Nixon, who had performed Bill and Hillary?s wedding...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on March 27, 2009 (boomark / email).