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Roger-- whom I consider a very thoughtful person-- could have on someone as dynamically charismatic and understandably ego- dominated as Jesse.

Q:

Isn't Roger Wilkins Roy's nephew?

Clark:

Nephew, yes.

Q:

And wasn't he an Assistant Secretary of Labor under a Democratic administration?

Clark:

He was in the Department of Justice when Ramsey Clark was Attorney General.

Yes, I wish that it were possible for Jesse to back his personal charisma with solid organizational people, but I see no signs of it. Maybe because I just don't know enough about it, but I see no effects.

Q:

Let me expand on civil rights in the international sphere. Have you been watching what's been happening in South Africa for some time?

Clark:

Of course. I've been watching that for years and years and years. I visited South Africa in '76, just before the Soweto riots.





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