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Podcast: Up in Your Business with Kerry McCoy
Episode: Reprise | Jim Guy Tucker, 43rd Governor of Arkansas
Description: Ep 211 | Aired 9/23/2020
In the autobiography of The Education of Ernie Dumas, the author admiringly describes Jim Guy as a “swashbuckler.” I had to look it up.
"A swashbuckler is a heroic archetype in European adventure literature that is typified by the use of a sword, acrobatics and chivalric ideals."
After reading about today’s guest, I concur with Mr. Dumas’s summation of Arkansas’s 43rd Governor!
Jim Guy is tall, uncomfortably handsome, Harvard graduate. Also a Marine, a Vietnam war correspondent, a politician-turned-international-businessman, and a felon. Yes, he was wrongly accused as part of the Kenneth Starr Whitewater Investigations. He settled...