Wonderful article in this week's "New Yorker" on Clark's Military career. It is really devastating to Clark. The last half is the most important. An excerpt and the URL.
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GENERAL CLARK’S BATTLES
by PETER J. BOYER
The candidate’s celebrated—and controversial—military career.
One evening in July, as Clark was dining with the President of Lithuania, he was summoned to an urgent telephone call from General Shelton. Shelton told Clark that Cohen had decided to remove him from the job in nine months, in order to make way for a new saceur, General Joe Ralston. Clark was flabbergasted, and tried to protest, but Shelton rang off. Then Clark received a call from a Washington Post reporter, Bradley Graham, who’d been told about Clark’s removal. The leak was a cold-blooded, but effective, method of cutting off Clark’s escape routes. “He was probably not extended the traditional courtesies of receiving the news in an orderly and private manner,” the Defense official said. “Quite simply, we felt he could not be trusted to accept the decision.” Clark made a furious round of telephone calls, to no avail.
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