hammerschmidt and nobody else wanted to do it. they wanted to run for other things. he finally decided maybe it should be him. and everybody thought that he was fighting a losing battle. and probably he was, and he knew it, but he openly said he did not think it could hurt his future chances at other offices and he was correct. that early campaign in 1974 he lost to hammerschmidt, but only about by 6000 votes, which was pretty remarkable for a newcomer against a very broad republican district. and he often says that losing that congressional election enabled him to go to the white house. if he had won the election for congress, he would've gone to washington and estate there -- stayed there. but his decision to stay in arkansas and be the governor even led to his bid for the -- eventually led to his bid for the white house. one of the fun things about this room, the dining room, or most people would use it as a dining room the clintons used as , campaign headquarters. bill had decided to run for attorney general two years after lo

and he had decided to run against john paul hammerschmidt. he had actually asked several other people to run against hammerschmidt, a very popular republican in the third district, and nobody else wanted to do it. they wanted to run for other things, and he finally decided maybe it should be him. and everyone thought he was fighting a losing battle, and probably he was and he knew it, but he openly says he didn't think it could hurt his future chances at other offices, and he was absolutely correct. that early campaign in '74, he lost to hammerschmidt by only about 6,000 votes which was pretty remarkable for a newcomer against a very broad republican district. and he often says that losing that congressional election enabled him to go to the white house. if he had won the election for congress, he would have gone to washington and stayed there. but his decision to stay here in arkansas, be the governor, eventually led to his bid for the white house. one of the fun things about this room, the dining room, where most people would use it as a di

bill had decided to run for attorney general two years after losing to john paul hammerschmidt. he had two primary contenders in the democratic primary. he won quite handily, actually, in the primary race and did not have a contender in the general election. so he is running his northwest arkansas part of the attorney general's campaign from here in the dining room. because he didn't have a general election opponent, he was able to work on behalf of jimmy carter in 1976, and he was carter's arkansas chair. carter won 65% of the arkansas vote that year. during the time he was running the arkansas carter campaign, hillary actually went to indiana and ran the carter campaign there and helped set up campaign offices and things like that. their lives were very much about political campaigns and working on behalf of democrats across the country. bill became the attorney general rather easily in 1976, and two years later would become the country's youngest governor in 1978. when bill and hillary were married, hillary kept her maiden name rodham would have been unusual in 1975 across th

elected to congress as a member of the house of representatives in 2001 former congressman john paul hammerschmidt to represented the third district of arkansas for 26 years gave him excellent advice and he said, john, always remember now that the election is over there are no warm republicans, number democrats, only the people of arkansas and you need to take care of them. [applause] senator boseman believes this is just as true now as it was then. he believes that no matter what the major legislative crisis we are facing, his goal is to make each constituent having trouble with the federal agency a priority. every from arkansas who visits has an opportunity to meet with him. every person from artisan who vacations in dc as an opportunity for her sliced will of the capital building. every veteran in arkansas has an opportunity to have his or her story heard. it's his commitment to the veterans history. speaking for myself as a veteran of capitol hill, he's work both on personal staff and committee staff i am proud to have spent over 30 years in service to congress in public service is a professio

to congress as a member of the house of representatives in 2001, former congressman john paul hammerschmidt, he represented the third district of arkansas for 26 years and gave an excellent advice and he said john, always remember, now the election is over. there are no more republicans, no more democrats. only the people of arkansas. and you need to take care of them. >>. >> senator boozman believes this is just as true now as it was then. he believes no matter what major legislative prices we are facing, his goal is to make each constituent having trouble with a federal agency a priority. every arkansan who visits needs to make their voice heard have an opportunity to meet with them. every arkansan vacations in dc as an opportunity for a personalized tour of the capital. and every veteran and arkansas have an opportunity to have his or her story heard. via senator boozman's commitment to the project at the library of congress. speaking for myself as a veteran in capitol hill, who has worked in both the senate and house, we work both on personal and committee staff, i'm proud to have spent