End of Clinton’s Term to Bring New Signage

Highway signs welcoming motorists to “The Home State of President Clinton” will be taken down when his term ends in January, officials in Little Rock said. There are 98 of the signs at the state’s borders. Dan Flowers, director of highways, said it was always expected that the signs would come down when Clinton left office. Some of the signs will be replaced by others directing visitors to Clinton’s boyhood hometowns of Hope and Hot Springs, and his future presidential library in Little Rock. Flowers dismissed suggestions that the decision to take down signs with Clinton’s name was politically motivated. Jim Parsons, a teacher, has campaigned to have the signs removed because he says Clinton’s impeachment in December 1998 makes the president a bad role model.