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...many years had Army Major General Chester V. Clifton Jr. commanded troops or made a military policy decision. Yet last week, in a White House ceremony, the President of the U.S. said of Clifton: "His influence-at least upon me-has been of the greatest value and, I think, the greatest worth to his country." The President then awarded the Distinguished Service Medal to "Ted" Clifton, military aide to both Johnson and Kennedy, who was retiring from the Army at 51 to become executive vice president of Manhattan's Thomas J. Deegan Co. Inc., a public relations firm...
...West Pointer ('36), Clifton took leave shortly after graduation, worked as a cub reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. He decided to become a career newsman, was on his way to Army headquarters in New York with his resignation when he saw a military parade on Fifth Avenue led by an old West Point friend. Clifton tore up the resignation, stayed in the Army for 29 more years. In Italy, during World War II, Artilleryman Clifton's huge 240-mm. howitzers plastered Cassino with 250,000 shells in 120 days, and Clifton won the Legion of Merit...
...Major General Chester V. (Ted) Clifton, military aide to President Johnson as he was to President Kennedy, is retiring from the Army even though he is only 51. Succeeding him will be Air Force Major James U. Cross, 40, pilot of the President's JetStar since February...
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...plausible, if unusual, product of the political market mechanism, the result of varying proportions of stupidity and astute planning plus a few unpredictable contingencies. Despite Goldwater's blunders and speech writers, despite all the primary results, the Arizonian ambled downhill to the nomination after Rockefeller's remarriage. It was Clifton White's roundup of 300 solidly Goldwater delegates (with 655 needed to nominate) plus the Goldwater victory (and 86 votes) in California that corralled the convention...