Word: clifton
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Warren Christopher announced that he would nominate Strobe Talbott to replace ousted Clifton Wharton as Deputy Secretary of State, the No. 2 post in the department. An Oxford roommate of President Clinton's and still his close friend, Talbott now serves as ambassador-at-large to the states of the former Soviet Union, and has helped formulate the Administration's staunchly pro- Yeltsin Russian policy...
...CLIFTON WHARTON...
Last week, in what looked like a first effort to face the problem, the State Department's No. 2 man, Deputy Secretary Clifton Wharton, stepped down. It was not what it seemed. Wharton, a successful educator and investment executive, had never functioned as Christopher's policy deputy; he handled mostly organizational tasks. "Nice man, wrong job," says an Administration official. Christopher asked Wharton to take a less important post, and when details of their talk were leaked last week, Wharton resigned on the spot. But since he was not actually part of the policymaking, his departure is not a solution...
Amid intensifying concern about the competence of President Clinton's foreign policy lieutenants, Deputy Secretary of State Clifton Wharton Jr., the second highest State Department official, resigned his post. Wharton had been the subject of damaging leaks, and his departure was essentially forced. His duties had been administrative, not policymaking, however, and his resignation did not mollify the Administration's critics...
Cara James, Harvard (Fr., B) Clifton...