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Transcript of interview with Bruce L. Woodbury by Stefani Evans, September 27, 2016

Date

2016-09-27

Description

As Bruce Woodbury reflects on his twenty-eight years as Clark County's longest-serving County commissioner (1981–2009) he recalls serving with about thirty different commissioners. Surprisingly, "only seven of us got major jail sentences." He ruminates how Federal Bureau of Investigation probes Operation Yobo in the early 1980s and G Sting in the early 2000s exposed several Clark County politicians who succumbed to greed. While Woodbury considers honesty in office a given, his values were not held by all of his colleagues. One Operation Yobo recording caught a fellow commissioner responding to the query, "How about Woodbury?" with, "No, you can't touch him with a ten foot pole." Woodbury remembers his "campaign guys really liked that." Apparently the voters did as well, as he consistently won re-election. The Las Vegas native, who was raised in the John S. Park neighborhood and attended Las Vegas schools, earned his Bachelor's degree at the University of Utah and his Juris Doctorat

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Paul Sogan interview, May 16, 1995: transcript

Date

1995-05-16

Archival Collection

Description

Interviewer: Dennis McBride

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United States commemorative horse racing postal stamp and information, 1974

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File

Archival Collection

Horse Racing Commemorative Postage Stamp
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Collection Number: MS-00115
Collection Name: Horse Racing Commemorative Postage Stamp
Box/Folder: Box SH-008

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