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...event kicked off at 9 a.m. with a keynote address by Betsey Wright, who was President Clinton's chief of staff during his seven-year stint as governor of Arkansas...
...told Loewen he did not want a fight and proposed a number of ways to resolve the dispute. But Loewen, he says, turned the evening into an effort to persuade him to sell his own best funeral homes. At one point, he says, Loewen boasted how he maneuvered John Wright to sell the Wright & Ferguson Funeral Home by threatening to build a brand-new home in his territory. Loewen demonstrated how Wright's hand shook so much the coffee sloshed from his cup. "To brag about being able to intimidate somebody is not evidence of a gentlemanly sensibility," O'Keefe...
What especially galled O'Keefe about Loewen's moving into the area was that after it acquired Riemann, it promptly bought the Wright & Ferguson Funeral Home in Jackson, Mississippi, which had previously sold only O'Keefe's brand of pre-need insurance. Suddenly, however, the Riemanns began selling their own brand through the new acquisition. O'Keefe took his protest directly to Ray Loewen...
...event begins with a keynote address at 9 a.m. by Betsey Wright, the former chief of staff to then-Arkansas governor Bill Clinton...
...Wright's speech will be followed by a panel of student leaders and administrators discussing women's leadership on campus...