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Clifford Brown on Trust, Fragile Democracies, and the True Cost of Dismantling Foreign Aid
Clifford Brown graduated with honors from Whitman in Economics in 1972, having started in late 1967 but also having taken one year off between his sophomore and junior years. During that year, he worked for the Northern Pacific Railway, as a deckhand on a tugboat on the Columbia river, and as a clerk/typist on an USG oceanographic ship (of the Environmental Science Services Administration (ESSA), NOAA’s predecessor agency) that travelled from Seattle to Tahiti and various ports in South America. The latter experience prompted a lifelong interest in both international affairs and foreign…
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