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Dale Bumpers: I will give you an illustration of how that works. Betty's father died in 1986. He was not a wealthy man, but he was not…

On the recordMay 5, 1994
I will give you an illustration of how that works. Betty's father died in 1986. He was not a wealthy man, but he was not poor. He left her land and money, and in the following year my assets went up rather substantially on my ethics report. The local paper said, ``Bumpers net worth goes up'' so many thousands of dollars. Even though you put ``S,'' you encircle an ``S'' in parenthesis in the ethics report for spouse, no reporter ever notices that. They just take the bottom line. It looked as though somehow or another I enriched myself, but it was an inheritance Betty got from her father.
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Dale Bumpers
Arkansas

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Discussing the implications of spousal assets on ethics reports.

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