Reply #108: Frantz and new SFRC Chief of Staff McKean wrote a book together

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in 1995. It was called (sort of ironically, given this hiring) Friends in High Places: The Rise and Fall of Clark Clifford.

The book is still available on http://www.amazon.com/Friends-High-Places-Clark-Clifford/dp/0316291625/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1231695707&sr=1-2">Amazon

From the press blurb:

From Publishers Weekly

Born in St. Louis in 1906, Clifford ended up working at the White House during WWII as a naval aide and soon came to the attention of fellow Missourian Harry Truman. Though he started out by organizing the President's poker games, he was soon in the middle of major decision-making: implementation of the Truman Doctrine; recognition of the State of Israel; formation of the plan behind Truman's close reelection in 1948, which, the authors contend, was the brainchild not of Clifford but of political aide James Rowe. A relentless self-promoter, Clifford went into private practice in 1950, piously claiming, "I have no influence," but he soon garnered as clients the likes of Howard Hughes, Phillips Petroleum, RCA, Revlon, DuPont and JFK, whom he defended against columnist Drew Pearson's charges of plagiarizing in Profiles in Courage. His "tumultuous tenure" as LBJ's peacenik secretary of defense during the Vietnam War is closely chronicled along with, finally, the First American/Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI) scandal, for which he was indicted and later acquitted in 1993. A juicy, eye-opening look at the fascinating life of the ultimate Washington insider. Photos not seen by PW.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal
New York Times investigative reporter Frantz and McKean, who participated in the Senate's inquiry into the Bank of Commerce and Credit International scandal that brought Clifford down, here consider how a man with so much could lose it all.
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Bio on David McKean (From a http://kerry.senate.gov/cfm/record.cfm?id=306414">Kerry press release)

David McKean, Staff Director

David McKean served as Chief of Staff in Sen. Kerry’s personal office from 1999 to 2008 and was a key player in laying the groundwork for the Senator’s presidential run in 2004. Raised in South Hamilton, MA, McKean graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College in 1980 and went on to earn graduate degrees from both the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and Duke Law School. He taught at the Waterford Kamhlaba School in Swaziland from 1981-1982 and served as Chief of Staff to Joe Kennedy from 1993-1994. He is the author of two highly acclaimed political biographies and coauthor of a forthcoming book on the early Supreme Court. McKean is married with three children and lives in Washington D.C.

Doug Frantz, Chief Investigator

Douglas Frantz, a former managing editor of the Los Angeles Times and former investigative reporter for The New York Times, has joined the Senate Foreign Relations Committee as chief investigator. Frantz was part of the team of NY Times reporters who won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service in 2002 and he was a Pulitzer finalist twice for investigative reporting. Frantz was the Istanbul bureau chief for the NY Times from 2000 to 2002 and he was based in Istanbul as an investigative reporter for the LA Times from 2003 to late 2005 when he became managing editor. He is a graduate of DePauw University and has a master’s degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.