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Focus (Forum & Focus)

Oct. 3, 2007

Quiet Legacy

Forum Column - By Richard M. Mosk - Former state Supreme Court justice and national security adviser William P. Clark may not be a household name, but a new book details how he may well be the most influential Californian you've never heard of.

FORUM COLUMN

By Richard M. Mosk

      William P. Clark has been one of California's most influential public servants. Yet, for most of his career, he has operated below the radar screen. He has served as a top aide to Gov. Ronald Reagan, a San Luis Obispo County Superior Court judge, a Court of Appeal justice, a California Supreme Court justice, deputy secretary of state, national security adviser, secretary of the interior and a sp...

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