Word: pryor
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...boxes were campaign materials, videos of Senate proceedings and committee hearings, thousands of letters processed by congressional staffers, even thousands of telephone message slips taken straight from secretaries' desks--all the remains of Pryor's 18-year career in the U.S. Senate...
...imagine what all's in it," Pryor says of the collection of papers he sent to the university. "I would hate to go through it myself...
...addition to thousands of press releases and official photographs, as well as hundreds of video cassettes, the boxes record much of Pryor's correspondence with constituents, even many of the cards Pryor received from well-wishers after suffering a heart attack...
...Pryor says he tried to save everything. But he recalls colleagues who threw away--even burned--the bulk of their records, a policy he compares to the Taliban's destruction of ancient Afghan statues...
After retiring from the Senate, Pryor donated $250,000 in unused campaign contributions to the University of Arkansas to help found a center on oral history. One of the center's first big projects, he says, will be documenting the oral history of Clinton's time in public life...