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...Clark Clifford, who helped engineer the great Truman victory of 1948, stayed home in Washington. From his quiet office overlooking the White House, he described the Carter phenomenon as "the second political miracle of this century" (Truman's triumph over Dewey being the first). But not a miracle of chance, Clifford insisted, a miracle of planning and perspicacity. The politics of want-learned during the New Deal and Fair Deal, turned into the New Frontier and Great Society -was no longer pertinent. "New generation coming," said Clifford...
...this year's fashions." The experience of Miss Hellman--herself one of the small handful of American playwrights in Miller's class--may well have spurred Miller to finish The Crucible. (One famous playwright who did cave in and supply HUAC with a list of names was Clifford Odets...
Paul Warnke, 56, was also a Viet Nam dove, was an Assistant Secretary of Defense in the L.B.J. era, and is now a law partner of Democratic Elder Statesman Clark Clifford, a potent adviser to all Democratic Presidents−and Presidents-elect−since Harry Truman. Warnke and Vance (but not Ball) are members of Carter's 28-member Foreign and Defense Policy Task Force...
Republicans: The New Jersey G.O.P. had its exercise in fratricide three years ago in a gubernatorial primary battle, and recently has been on a unity kick. Seeking to avoid a serious fight over delegates, party leaders put together an uncommitted slate headed by Senator Clifford Case. Though the slate contains a few supporters of Ronald Reagan, a large majority favors Gerald Ford. The President has the separate popularity contest to himself because Reagan declined to enter. The Case group faces competition, however, from a partial slate running under the logo "former Governor of California...
...eight Democrats and seven Republicans. Members would be limited to eight-year terms to prevent the growth of cozy relationships between the watchers and the watched. Among those legislators picked at week's end were Democratic liberals Birch Bayh, Adlai Stevenson, Gary Hart and Joseph Biden, and Republicans Clifford Case, Howard Baker, Mark Hatfield, Strom Thurmond and Goldwater. Though Church might be a natural candidate for chairmanship of the new committee, he ruled himself out. The expected choice is Democrat Daniel Inouye of Hawaii, a tough skeptic, who served on Sam Ervin's Watergate Committee. After Inouye, another...