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Ophelia Clemens (born c. 1877) was an American journalist. She was the daughter of Samuel Clemens. During the Great War and the interwar occupation of Canada, she wrote several stories unflattering to George Armstrong Custer, the military governor. While reporting on Custer, she met his adjutant, Abner Dowling. During the Second Great War, Clemens continued her work despite being over sixty years old. She wrote several scathing stories about General Daniel MacArthur's failure to capture Fredericksburg and the heavy casualties the U.S. Forces suffered in the attempts.

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  • Ophelia Clemens
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  • Ophelia Clemens (born c. 1877) was an American journalist. She was the daughter of Samuel Clemens. During the Great War and the interwar occupation of Canada, she wrote several stories unflattering to George Armstrong Custer, the military governor. While reporting on Custer, she met his adjutant, Abner Dowling. During the Second Great War, Clemens continued her work despite being over sixty years old. She wrote several scathing stories about General Daniel MacArthur's failure to capture Fredericksburg and the heavy casualties the U.S. Forces suffered in the attempts.
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  • The Grapple
  • Blood and Iron,
  • Drive to the East,
  • How Few Remain,
  • The Center Cannot Hold,
Name
  • Ophelia Clemens
Religion
  • Atheist
Occupation
  • Journalist
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Parents
  • Samuel and Alexandra Clemens
Birth
  • c. 1877
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  • Ophelia Clemens (born c. 1877) was an American journalist. She was the daughter of Samuel Clemens. During the Great War and the interwar occupation of Canada, she wrote several stories unflattering to George Armstrong Custer, the military governor. While reporting on Custer, she met his adjutant, Abner Dowling. During the Second Great War, Clemens continued her work despite being over sixty years old. She wrote several scathing stories about General Daniel MacArthur's failure to capture Fredericksburg and the heavy casualties the U.S. Forces suffered in the attempts. She also uncovered large unexplained War Department expenditures in the 1942 Federal budget and began to investigate. She was dissuaded from doing so by Senior bureaucrat Franklin Roosevelt and Congresswoman Flora Blackford, who both knew what she did not: that the expenditures were for the superbomb project. Clemens also covered her old friend Abner Dowling's advance in western Texas. She and Dowling, in addition to enjoying working with one another, had a friendship wrought with sexual tension, much to the disgust of younger, fitter observers. Clemens was horrified at the nature of Camp Determination and promised Dowling that she would publicize it until the Army was forced to give him all the resources he needed to shut it down as quickly as possible. Dowling asked her not to, citing his belief that it was more important that Irving Morrell receive priority in resource allocation.
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