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	Dale Bumpers - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dale Leon Bumpers (born 12 August 1925) was a Democratic member of the United States Senate from the State of Arkansas, from 1975 until his retirement in January, 1999; and was governor of Arkansas from 1971 to 1975.
		Bumpers graduated from Northwestern University Law School in 1951 and was admitted to the Arkansas bar in 1952.
		Bumpers and his wife Betty were both known for their dedication to the cause of childhood immunization.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dale_Bumpers (518 words)

	Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center
		Bumpers spearheaded a system for childhood vaccinations that became a national model, and the state achieved one of the highest immunization rates in the country.
		Bumpers contacted the new administration, explained the deficits in the country’s immunization program, and urged that something be done to improve the situation.
		Bumpers and Rosalynn Carter started a campaign called "Every Child by Two." For the past eight years, the organization has worked to ensure that all children in America are immunized on schedule from birth to age 2, and that immunization delivery is institutionalized nationwide.
	www.vrc.nih.gov /vrc/bumpers.htm (575 words)

	In the News - Full Article, In the News, News and Events, School of Law, Northwestern University
		Bumpers agreed to do so, and the force and logic of his hourlong speech is widely credited with the ensuing vote in which the Senate rejected impeachment.
		Dale Bumpers was born in 1925 and grew up in Charleston, Ark., during the Depression years.
		In one case Bumpers was representing a husband who was seeking a divorce and who claimed to have witnessed his wife engaging in an adulterous act with another man. In his testimony, the husband used a four-letter word to describe the action in which his wife and her lover had been engaged.
	www.law.northwestern.edu /inthenews/article_full.cfm?eventid=809 (966 words)

	Washingtonpost.com Special Report: Clinton Accused
		In Bumpers, Clinton gained the services of a Senate veteran who is liked and respected by senators of both parties and who is familiar with the traditions and folkways of that legislative body.
		Ruff said Bumpers, once considered one of the Senate's most gifted orators, will deliver the closing argument for the Clinton defense team during the trial's first phase, giving the former senator a chance to make the final appeal to the 100 senators, most of whom were his colleagues only a few weeks ago.
		Bumpers was known in the Senate as one of Clinton's strongest allies.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/politics/special/clinton/stories/bumpers012099.htm (512 words)

	University of Arkansas - Daily Headlines
		Bumpers is married to the former Betty Flanagan of Charleston.
		Bumpers has been named one of the 10 best U. Senators in a poll of Washington correspondents, and was chosen as the top Senate orator in a USA Today poll of Senate press secretaries.
		Bumpers was the chief sponsor of the 1984 law that established those Arkansas wilderness areas.
	dailyheadlines.uark.edu /788.htm (1044 words)

	Modern American Patriot: Senator Dale Bumpers - Interview
		BUMPERS: I'll tell you, the President of the United States, any president who's willing to take this issue on and raise the debate to the level that the people of America can understand can have a very, very dramatic effect on military spending.
		BUMPERS: They're concerned about their education and they're not so concerned about economic matter or military matters as they are about getting an education so they'll at least have a shot at the piece of the rock.
		BUMPERS: As a person who spoke out on issues that I thought really went to the very heart of this nation's existence, our continued existence, and the quality of lives that my children and grandchildren can expect from this nation.
	www.cdi.org /adm/1121/Bumpers.html (5897 words)

	NPR : Dale Bumpers: A Memoir
		Bumpers laced his argument with gentle jokes and all the eloquence of a long line of senators from the South.
		In Bumpers' case, the town was Charleston, in western Arkansas.
		Born in 1925, Bumpers vividly recalls growing up during the Depression, when grinding poverty was a fact of life for everyone in his town.
	www.npr.org /templates/story/story.php?storyId=1258359 (768 words)

	NIH Dedicates New Vaccine Research Center to Dale and Betty Bumpers; President Clinton to Deliver Keynote ...
		Bumpers spearheaded asystem for childhood vaccinations that became a national model, and thestate achieved one of the highest immunization rates in the country.
		Bumpers contactedthe new administration, explained the deficits in the country's immunizationprogram, and urged that something be done to improve the situation.
		Bumpers and Rosalynn Carter started a campaign called "EveryChild by Two." For the past eight years, the organization has worked toensure that all children in America are immunized on schedule from birth toage 2, and that immunization delivery is institutionalized nationwide.
	www.nih.gov /news/pr/jun99/niaid-09.htm (1074 words)

	Dale L. Bumpers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Dale was first elected to the U.S. Senate in 1974, where he served four terms as a Democratic Senator from Arkansas.
		Dale has fought to stop the giveaway of America’s public lands to foreign-owned mining interests, bring competition to our National Park concessions, preserve the nation’s natural heritage and environmental riches, and prevent whimsical changes to the Constitution, among a litany of other legislative accomplishments.
		Dale and his wife, Betty, have been strong advocates of childhood immunization, and in 1999, a new vaccine research center at the National Institutes of Health was named the Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center.
	www.arentfox.com /people/lastname/B/bioid/213 (432 words)

	News & Opinion: End The Nightmare (Memphis Flyer . 02-01-99)
		Bumpers spoke of a judicial system “out of kilter” and of “the human element,” of “the innocent people, innocent people, who have been financially and mentally bankrupt” because of the endless ongoing vendetta.
		Bumpers was hard on both the president and his critics for undermining the presidency, but he quoted such foreign leaders as Vaclav Havel, King Hussein, and Nelson Mandela to the effect that American prestige and that of its president abroad had never been higher.
		Betty Bumpers, the same Betty Bumpers whose health had been so major a factor in her husband’s decision not to run for the presidency himself, had also figured importantly in his remarks, as when he recalled himself as a young Marine-to-be, awaiting a pre-induction bus to Little Rock, at 2 a.m.
	weeklywire.com /ww/02-01-99/memphis_poli.html (1569 words)

	Dale Leon Bumpers » Biographies of Arkansas's Governors » Exhibits » Old State House
		Dale Bumpers was born on August 12, 1925 in the tiny Ozarks town of Charleston.
		Bumpers graduated from law school in 1951 and returned to Charleston to practice law and run the family hardware store.
		Bumpers proved just as successful in his second term, where he fought back efforts by special interests to hijack the state's budget surplus.
	www.oldstatehouse.com /exhibits/virtual/governors/the_new_south/bumpers.asp (651 words)

	Arkansas Times Blogs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bumpers ran his campaign for governor in 1970, at a time when Arkansas voters were yearning for a new reform-minded leader.
		No one since Dale Bumpers in 1970 has been elected governor without first winning some other statewide office and establishing a statewide network of followers and a statewide presence and name recognition.
		Dale Bumpers won in 1970 because the other candidates running for Governor were dismal to use a polite word.
	www.arktimes.com /Weblogs/WeblogItemDetail.aspx?WebLogItemID=838d0b10-c21c-4160-a901-632283d56eb5&WeblogID=dabe8285-8214-4a72-ae7c-7ed16bb5ed5b (1217 words)

	In the News - Full Article, In the News, News and Events, School of Law, Northwestern University
		Bumpers begins with droll humor, leading to a softly damning, point-by-point destruction of the case against Clinton.
		Bumpers chooses not to tell his tale as a celebrity-studded gossip-fest, but as a soft-edged portrait of the eras in which he lived, from the Great Depression through World War II and the Southern civil rights movement.
		Bumpers spoke of a fiery evangelist who challenged his congregation: "Is there anybody in the audience who has ever known anybody who comes close to the perfection of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ?" Incredibly, a little man in the back raised his hand.
	www.law.northwestern.edu /inthenews/article_full.cfm?eventid=950 (671 words)

	Arkansas News Bureau - Former Sen. Dale Bumpers discusses new book
		To his surprise, the editor told Bumpers that his visit was prompted by the Oct. 18, 1998, farewell address the senator had delivered on the Senate floor, closing the chapter on his 24-year Senate career.
		Bumpers also criticized Bush's tax cut, 50 percent of which goes to the richest 5 percent at the expense of the country's social services programs, he said.
		Bumpers said he had dreamed of a Golden Age his entire life when all things were possible.
	www.arkansasnews.com /archive/2003/04/23/71756.html (389 words)

	Democratic Underground Forums - Dale Bumpers: Best Lawyer in A 1 Lawyer Town: A Memoir (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Former Arkansas governor Bumpers served in the Senate for 24 years and is currently with a Washington law firm.
		Bumpers has had a long, eventful life, but his amusing anecdotes and razor-sharp recollections of the 1930s and '40s are the most appealing portions of this engrossing memoir.
		A WWII Marine, Bumpers was at Northwestern Law on the GI Bill in 1949 when his parents were killed in a car crash.
	www.democraticunderground.com /duforum/DCForumID66/1081.html (672 words)

	Amazon.com: The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town : A Memoir: Books: Dale Bumpers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Dale Bumpers is 10 tears older than I, but given that rural Arkansas small town life was similar from the turn of the century until about to mid 1950s, our boyhood experiences were not disimilar.
		Bumpers, like his predessor, William Fulbright, never suffered fools lightly, and given that he was surrounded by them toward the end of his senate career, it is easy to see why he ended his senate career as a relatively young man - by senate standards.
		Bumpers' memoir is worth reading for the depiction of the rural South and a profile of a real-life career of a grassroots lawyer who did good and made good in the first half.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0375505210?v=glance (2033 words)

	UAMS Pediatric Cardiologist to Lead National Cardiology Group
		Bumpers spoke at a 30th-anniversary celebration of the Area Health Education Centers that the 69th General Assembly established in 1973.
		UAMS honored Bumpers and the members of the 69th General Assembly at a luncheon in the Great Hall at the Arkansas Governor's Mansion.
		Bumpers said the state's health care delivery system needed improvement when he became governor in 1971.
	www.uams.edu /newsbureau/2003/March/DaleBumpers.htm (386 words)

	NIH RECORD - 06/29/99 - President Clinton Dedicates VRC Cornerstone
		Harkin, too, recounted the Bumpers' advocacy on behalf of children, supplying details of their work at the state and federal level, and particularly crediting the partnership that evolved between Betty Bumpers and First Lady Rosalynn Carter that resulted in immunizations becoming standard requirements nationwide for public elementary school enrollment.
		Bumpers' energetic legacy of crisscrossing the country and globe on behalf of children, and informed the audience, "She's here only 2 days after having back surgery, which is the ultimate testament to her grit and determination." And though he admitted he has railed against too-brief hospitalizations, he called Betty, "Exhibit A for drive-by surgery.
		Bumpers then spoke briefly, first thanking "my husband for giving me the courage to go and be what I wanted to be while he was governor." She called Rosalynn Carter "my unfailing companion.
	www.nih.gov /news/NIH-Record/06_29_99/story01.htm (1565 words)

	Random House Trade \| The Best Lawyer in a One-Lawyer Town by Dale Bumpers
		Dale Bumpers was reared during the depths of the Great Depression, in the miserably poor town of Charleston, Arkansas, population 851.
		Many years later, in 1970, after suffering financial disaster and personal tragedy, Bumpers ran for governor of Arkansas, starting out with one-percent name recognition and $50,000, most of which was borrowed from his brother and sister.
		Dale Bumpers retired from the Senate in 1998 and is currently of counsel at Arent Fox, a law firm based in Washington, D.C. This is his first book.
	www.randomhouse.com /randomhouse/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375505218 (591 words)

	Paul Greenberg
		The arms buildup that Dale Bumpers decried would in the end hasten the end of the Soviet Union, and therefore of the Cold War, and therefore of the pervasive nuclear threat that once hung over the world.
		Dale Bumpers' oratory may have a dated, reflexive sound by now, but his personal integrity and occasional displays of courage command respect.
		Dale Bumpers may not be a Robert Byrd in his prime, and he's certainly not a Daniel Patrick Moynihan as a thinker, but the good senator is a lot better than this gratuitous bow to a deeply shallow president makes him sound.
	www.jewishworldreview.com /cols/greenberg110298.asp (1124 words)

	Bumpers Encourages Students to Study Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Bumpers represented Arkansas in the United States Senate from 1975 until he retired in January 1999.
		Bumpers, who graduated from the University of Arkansas then Northwestern University Law School with the help of the GI Bill, returned to his hometown of Charleston, Ark., to practice law.
		Bumpers also answered questions from students and took some time during intermission to visit with students and other guests who attended the luncheon.
	www.hsu.edu /content.aspx?id=5865 (923 words)

	"Modern American Patriot: Senator Dale Bumpers" Video Transcript
		With the collapse of the Soviet Union, Senator Bumpers was one of the first to call for an appropriate response by government: an end to the arms race and a reduction in military spending.
		BUMPERS: I've always believed that the numbers game -- I can remember my wife, Betty, was a third grade teacher and she refused to teach her children duck and cover.
		BUMPERS: Thank you...Of all the spending cuts over the next seven years, poor little ole non-defense discretionary spending: education, health care, law enforcement, you name it, takes 33 percent, 33 percent of the total spending cuts over the next seven years.
	www.cdi.org /adm/1121/transcript.html (4017 words)

	BLM Broadcast Transcript: Natural Resource Forum, 5/29/98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-07)
		Senator Bumpers has served 28 years in the united states Senate and presently serves on the energy and natural resource committee which has legislative oversight responsibilities and authorization responsibilities for the department of Interior and BLM.
		Well, Dale might be surprised to learn that legislatively, the experience that gave me the most temporary exhilaration was when I joined with him and we passed the concession bill in the Senate 90-9.
		He was protecting Dale's position as he understood it and had never had the opportunity to discuss this to the degree that I think it should have been discussed.
	www.blm.gov /nhp/100/nrf2tscr.html (7373 words)

	Clinton Defense Concludes by Weighing Admitted Sins Against the Good of the Nation
		ASHINGTON -- In a speech of rare eloquence, former Senator Dale Bumpers of Arkansas concluded the defense of President Clinton on impeachment charges Thursday night, coupling an admission of Clinton's sins and weaknesses with a plea for his acquittal for the good of the nation.
		Bumpers responded directly to those, including Representative Henry J. Hyde of Illinois, the chief prosecutor, who have suggested that the United States is diminished as a force in the world by having "a Presidential perjurer" in office.
		Bumpers, who spoke from notes scrawled on a yellow legal pad, argued at some length that there was perjury and perjury, that some lies told under oath were worse than others.
	partners.nytimes.com /library/politics/012299impeach-trial.html (1302 words)

	All Immigration Votes of Senator Dale Bumpers
		Bumpers supported provisions that allow immigrants to send for their adult relatives.
		By voting against the Feinstein Amendment, Sen. Bumpers voted in favor of a system of chain migration that has been the primary reason for annual immigration levels snowballing from less than 300,000 in 1965 to around a million today.
		Bumpers joined those who argued that the foreign workers were not needed while U.S. firms were laying off tens of thousands of American workers.
	profiles.numbersusa.com /improfile.php3?DistSend=AR&VIPID=21 (1152 words)

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