A Great American – And Texan Ramsey Clark In Long Line Of Lone Star Progressives Ramsey Clark has always been one of my all-time heroes. He came from a long line of Texas progressive (liberal) Democrats, starting with Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn and President Lyndon B. Johnson, which ended with George W. Bush’s defeat of Gov. Anne Richards. What drove all of these politicians were two things – an absolute horror of the devastation of the Dust Bowl…
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ONEONTAN’S ‘LIFE OF PRINCIPLE’ EXPLORED BOLD LEGACY Ramsey Clark, Filmmaker Joe Stillman’s Hero ‘Tell me about the War on Poverty,” Saddam Hussein asked Ramsey Clark when they met in Baghdad on Nov. 12, 1990 to negotiate a hostage release, Oneonta filmmaker Joe Stillman recalled in an interview this week. In reply, Clark, who had been President Lyndon Johnson’s attorney general in the 1960s, told how one afternoon LBJ, “War on Poverty” creator, showed up in his Justice Department office “out…