The passing this year of Dale Bumpers and Ray Thornton has stirred memories about the 1970s as a dramatic and transformative time in Arkansas politics. The decade was an era of moderation and modernization, “of happy hours and high times,” as described in a recent "Talk Business and Politics" article by John Brummett. In this program, Brummett will moderate a conversation about that decade with David Pryor, who ran two epic Senate races and served two terms as governor during it; Ernie Dumas, the legendary "Arkansas Gazette" journalist who covered it all; and Archie Schaffer, a former Tyson Foods executive and the nephew and executive secretary for Bumpers as governor and later campaign manager for Thornton in the famous 1978 race for the U. S. Senate.