Richard \u201cDick\u201d Warner Carlson\u2019s life began in hardship and ended in a kind of hard-won peace.<\/p>\n
Abandoned as an infant to a Boston orphanage by a frightened, 15-year-old Swedish-speaking mother,<\/p>\n
he cycled through foster homes before finally being adopted. Expelled from school at 17,<\/p>\n
he joined the Marines, then clawed his way into journalism, foreign service,<\/p>\n
and the upper reaches of Washington power.<\/p>\n
Yet those who knew him best describe not a climber, but a reader, a skeptic,<\/p>\n
a man who carried an \u201coutlaw spirit\u201d softened by decency and faith.<\/p>\n
As a single father, he hauled his sons along on reporting trips and<\/p>\n
turned dinner into a nightly seminar on revolutions,<\/p>\n
literature, and the unchanging nature of human beings.<\/p>\n
His second marriage to Patricia Swanson brought four decades of joy;<\/p>\n
her death left a wound he carried to the end.<\/p>\n
Surrounded by his children, his beloved dogs nearby,<\/p>\n
he chose clarity over comfort in his final weeks.<\/p>\n
The man who began life unwanted left it fully loved,<\/p>\n
his legacy etched into the family and stories he leaves behind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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