I spent a number of years in Arkansas working on the savings and loan crisis in the 1980’s. The biggest S&L failure in history (at that time) was in Pine Bluff and involved a real estate scam that came to be known as “Whitewater.”
So I typically stayed in the Excelsior Hotel in Little Rock. My firm kept a suite on the executive level. Which also seemed to be Governor Bill‘s favorite place to meet his girlfriends. It was a short walk from the state capitol, where his office was.
I often saw him in the elevator. But remembered an uncomfortable look on his face, when he walked into it with a lovely blonde. I wouldn’t know her name for a few more years, but it was Gennifer Flowers. Slick Willie from Hope. Amazing how innocent those days seem, compared to the bullshit we deal with in politics daily.