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Arkansas State university receives thousands of videos, spanning from Elvis to Clinton era.

Presiding over a store opening as the youthful Arkansas governor, Bill Clinton sees a greeting card he likes, slips it in his pocket and saunters out.

It’s one of the glimpses of Arkansas history overflowing from a trove of 26,000 videocassettes that the Allbritton family — owner of KATV Channel 7, the ABC station in Little Rock — donated Wednesday to the University of Arkansas.

About 200 people, including the entire Arkansas congressional delegation, turned out Wednesday morning for a presentation ceremony in the Beaux Arts grandeur of the Russell Senate Office Building’s century-old Senate Caucus Room, site of the Watergate and Iran-Contra hearings.

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