Sunday Reads

 So what else is new?  Rich lives matter.

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Obituary:  One-time attorney general Ramsey Clark, just 93, has  died.  He was attorney general during the LBJ administration, so he was quite a young man then.  I mean, LBJ's administration started close to sixty years ago, upon the death of JFK.  I can't believe it has been that long ago.  LBJ died the year I graduated from high school, 1973, on the day the USSC rendered its historic Roe v. Wade decision.

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William Ramsey Clark was born on Dec. 18, 1927, in Dallas to Judge Clark and Mary (Ramsey) Clark, whose father was a justice on the Texas Supreme Court and head of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. (She lived to 100, dying in 2002.) Ramsey spent his early years in Los Angeles and later remembered becoming fiercely opposed to capital punishment in the fifth or sixth grade. 

Mr. Clark served in the Marines as a courier in Europe in World War II and graduated from the University of Texas. He earned a law degree and a master’s in history from the University of Chicago.

In 1949, he married Georgia Welch, a classmate at Texas. (She also earned a master’s, in political science, at Chicago.) They had two children, Ronda Kathleen Clark and Thomas Campbell Clark I. Mrs. Clark died in 2010. Their son died in 2014.

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He became a prominent opponent of the Vietnam War.

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Good on West Virginia, and shame on the ACLU which persists in lying about the issue.

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