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My loudest critics claimed I wanted to put every log hauler and mill worker out of businessWe got nowhere, and Steve got disgusted and went home to the hills not long afterward I even made some people mad in my economic development workI was determined to broaden the states efforts beyond the traditional function of recruiting new industries, to include the expansion of existing industries and aid to small and minority businesses and farmers in marketing their products at home and abroadWe dramatically increased the activity of our states European office in Brussels and I took the first Arkansas trade mission to the Far Eastto Taiwan, Japan, and Hong KongWe became the first state in America to have our own program for handling hazardous waste products approved by the federal governmentWe were also successful in the traditional work of recruiting new industries, with increased investments over previous years of 75 percent in 1979 and 64 percent in 1980How could I make anybody mad with that record? Because I changed the name of the department, from the Arkansas Industrial Development Commission to the Department of Economic Development, to reflect its new, broader scope of activityThe AIDC, it turned out, was a sacred brand name to many influential businesspeople who had served on gold gucci watches the commission and to local chamber of commerce directors all over the state who had worked with the agencyThey were not satisfied by my appointment of Jim Dyke, a successful Little Rock businessman, to lead the new departmentIf I hadnt changed its name, I could have done all the same things without the adverse falloutIn 1979 and 1980, I seemed to have an affinity for adverse fallout I made a similar mistake in educationDon Roberts, superintendent of schools in Newport News, Virginia, to be director of educationDon had been an administrator in the Little Rock system a few years earlier, so he knew a lot of the players, and he had a friendly, low-key manner and got along well with most of themHe implemented the reforms I passed in the legislature, plus one of his own, a teacher-training program called PET, Program for Effective TeachingThe problem was that to get Don in, I had to ask for the resignation of the departments longtime director, Arch FordArch was a fine gentleman who had devoted decades of dedicated service to Arkansas schoolchildrenIt was time for him to retire, though, and this time, I didnt make the mistake of letting someone else ask him to goBut I could have handled it better, giving him a big send-off and taking pains to make it look like his idea In the human fake chanel bag services area, we got generally good reviewsWe took the sales tax off prescription drugs, a measure especially helpful to seniors, and increased the homestead-property tax exemption for them by two-thirdsAll told, more than twenty-five bills directly benefiting the elderly were passed, including tougher standards for nursing homes and an expansion of home health care Nineteen seventy-nine was the International Year of the ChildHillary, who was serving as chair of the Arkansas Advocates for Children and Families, an organization she had helped to found, took the lead in pushing some meaningful changes, including passing a Uniform Child Custody Act to eliminate custody problems for families moving in and out of our state; reducing the average daily population of our youth-service detention centers by 25 percent; developing better inpatient and community-based treatment for severely disturbed children; and placing 35 percent more children with special needs in adoptive homes Finally, I got involved in welfare reform for the first timeThe Carter administration named Arkansas one of a handful of states to participate in a workfare experiment, in which able-bodied food-stamp recipients were required to register for work in order to keep getting the stampsThe experience sparked my cambon chanel abiding interest in moving toward a more empowering, work-oriented approach to helping poor people, one that I carried with me all the way to the White House and the signing of the Welfare Reform bill of 1996 As 1980 dawned, I felt good about the governorship and my lifeI had made some powerful interests angry, and gripes about the car tags were growing, but I had a long list of progressive legislative and administrative initiatives of which I was very proud In September, our friends Diane Kincaid and Jim Blair were married in Morriss and Ann Henrys backyard, where Hillary and I had had our wedding reception four years earlierI performed the ceremony, as the Arkansas Constitution allows governors to do, and Hillary served as both bridesmaid and best manThe politically correct Blairs referred to her as best personI couldnt argue with that Besides being the best, Hillary was pregnantvery pregnantWe badly wanted to have a child and had been trying for some time without successIn the summer of 1979, we decided to make an appointment with a fertility expert in San Francisco as soon as we got back from a short vacation in Bermuda, but we had a wonderful time, so wonderful we never made it to San FranciscoSoon after we got home, Hillary found out she was pregnantShe kept working for prada black bags several months, and we attended Lamaze classes in anticipation of my participating in a natural childbirthI really enjoyed those classes and the time we spent with the other expectant parents, who were mostly middle-class working people just as excited as we wereA few weeks before her delivery date, Hillary was having a few problemsHer doctor told her she absolutely couldnt travelWe had complete confidence in him and understood that she had to observe his travel banUnfortunately, that meant she couldnt go with me to the annual Washington meeting of the National Governors Association, including dinner at the White House with President and MrsI went to the conference; took Carolyn Huber, who had left the Rose Law Firm to run the Governors Mansion for us, to the White House dinner, called home every few hours, and returned as soon as I could on the night of February 27 Fifteen minutes after I walked into the Governors Mansion, Hillarys water broke, three weeks earlyI was nervous as a cat, carrying around my list of Lamaze materials to take to Arkansas Baptist HospitalThe state troopers who worked at the mansion were nervous, tooI asked them to get the bag of ice cubes for Hillary to suck on while I gathered the other stuffThey dida nine-pound bag, enough to last her through a week of dolce and gabbana handbag labor