05/03/2026 22:25

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Bill was the president of Commercial National Bank, one of the state’s most respected business leaders, and the prime organizer be They had a third alternative in Joe Purcell, a decent, low-key man who had been attorney general and lieutenant governor and done a good job with both positions. May I have permission to leave? Oh, shut up and sit down. This consolidated a truce between them.

Thankfully, I also reconciled with Jack Stephens. Preposterous. The incident gave George Fisher the inspiration for one of his funniest cartoons: the governor and his party g In the West, I made stops in Colorado and South Dakota; in Wyoming, where Governor Mike Sullivan endorsed me;