Fifty years ago, the inauguration of Gov. Winthrop Rockefeller contributed to a legacy of transformation in Arkansas.

Bill Clinton, who later married progressive state politics with progressive national politics to win the White House for the Democrats in 1992 and 1996, followed Pryor.

Robert Steinbuch, a law professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock Bowen and member of the Arkansas FOIA Task Force, said it was in 1967 when Winthrop Rockefeller signed the Arkansas ...