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Former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, who stepped down in the wake of Whitewater, dies at 81

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FILE - Former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker attends Political Animals Club meeting in Little Rock, Ark., March 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)
FILE - Former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker smiles as he leaves the Little Rock federal courthouse after paring prospective jurors for his next criminal trial on his first day out of home detention from his 1996 Whitewater conviction, Feb. 19, 1998. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File
FILE - Former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker talks about photographs on display made while serving as a U.S. Marine Corps war correspondent in 1965 and 1967, at the MacArthur Museum of Arkansas Military History in Little Rock, Ark., in Vietnam, March 4, 2010. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)
FILE - Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, center, leaves the federal courthouse with a security guard in Little Rock, Ark., May 28, 1996. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)
FILE - Former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, center, is joined by former governors and U.S. Sens. David Pryor, left, and Dale Bumpers, right, both D-Ark., at a state party convention in Little Rock, Ark., Aug. 26, 2006. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)
FILE - Former Gov. Jim Guy Tucker, left, joins Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson, center, and fellow former governors to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the state's Governor's Mansion, at the residence in Little Rock, Ark., Feb. 3, 2020. (AP Photo Andrew DeMillo, File)

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FILE - Former Arkansas Gov. Jim Guy Tucker attends Political Animals Club meeting in Little Rock, Ark., March 21, 2014. (AP Photo/Danny Johnston, File)