From The Center for Vision & Values, Grove City College
By Paul G. Kengor
Editor’s note: This article first appeared at The American Spectator.
The most important adviser to President Ronald Reagan in his takedown
of the Soviet empire has died at the age of 81. His name was William P.
“Bill” Clark, known to many as simply “Judge Clark,” and he was one of
the finest human beings and Americans that this country has ever known. I
can say that without exaggeration and with the intimate knowledge of
someone who became not only Clark’s biographer but a close friend.
Actually, it was hard to be otherwise. I never met anyone who didn’t
like and come to respect Bill Clark. Think about this: Could you name
another person, in the Reagan administration or out, praised by figures
as diverse as Edmund Morris and Cap Weinberger, Edwin Meese and Lou
Cannon, Maureen Dowd and Michael Reagan, Human Events and the New York
Times, Time and National Review, and even Jimmy Carter and George H. W.
Bush? As to the last pair, when we prepared the biography of Clark for
publication, it wasn’t a huge surprise when we got endorsements from
both Carter and Bush. Only Bill Clark could inspire something like that.
