Word: oxnard
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Robert A. France Oxnard, Calif...
...White House office is filled with Western props. There is a large photo of three horsemen, taken in 1967 when Clark was Reagan's chief of staff in Sacramento. The riders are Reagan, Clark and Clark's father William, formerly a rancher and the police chief of Oxnard, Calif. In the corner, Clark's gray stetson dangles from a hat rack. Near by, encased in glass, rest the Colt .44 revolver and marshal's badge that belonged to his grandfather Robert Emmet Clark, once the sheriff of Ventura County and a U.S. marshal...
...night he resumed his studies at Loyola, but his grades were so lackluster that the dean urged him to go full time or quit. Clark left Loyola without graduating and studied for the bar exam on his own. On the second try, he passed. He went home to Oxnard, "opened up my own firm and waited for the phone to ring." It did, and Clark became quite successful as an attorney. He was also active in the family ranching business...
Clark, 50, owes every job of his 15-year public career to Ronald Reagan. He was running a law firm in his home town of Oxnard when they met during Reagan's 1966 gubernatorial campaign; the next year. Clark became Reagan's chief of staff. He devised a "mini-memo" system of single-page briefings, stamped INFORMATION or DECISION, so Reagan would know at a glance whether a response was needed. Among Clark's subordinates then were Edwin Meese III and Michael Deaver. Clark remains very friendly with both, but reminds listeners that they once worked...