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Tuesday, September 16th, 2003 at 6:09 am · 24 views
Clark to launch 2004 presidential bid Wednesday
Former NATO supreme commander Wesley Clark has decided to seek the Democratic nomination for president and is expected to announce his candidacy Wednesday, sources close to the retired general said.
Clark is expected to launch his candidacy in his hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas, with an announcement at noon (1 p.m. EDT) Wednesday. He has assembled a team of campaign operatives that include veterans of the campaigns of former President Bill Clinton and Vice President Al Gore.
Clark, 58, is a West Point graduate, Rhodes Scholar and former CNN military analyst who led U.S. and allied forces in the 1999 air war in Kosovo. He declared his party affiliation September 4 in a CNN interview and will be the 10th Democrat to launch a bid to unseat President Bush.
Clark convened a meeting of his political advisers and friends Tuesday in Little Rock to discuss his decision. Among those planning to attend the meeting were George Bruno, a former Democratic Party chairman in the early primary state of New Hampshire, and former Clinton White House spokesman Mark Fabiani.
Clark retired from the Army in 2000 after a 34-year career that included combat in Vietnam, a Rhodes Scholarship and leading the military negotiations in the peace talks that ended the war in Bosnia in 1995.
He became NATO’s supreme commander in 1997, but reportedly clashed with Pentagon officials during the Kosovo campaign and was relieved of command after the war.
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