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Article: Roger Clemens Dubbed Benedict Arnold of '90s
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- December 17, 1996
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Nothing against Canada, but Roger Clemens has been dubbed a
traitor by a U.S. government spokesman for leaving Boston to pitch
for Toronto.
"That is the official position of the State Department,"
Nicholas Burns said yesterday in a tongue-in-cheek denouncement of
Clemens that could come only from a Boston native and diehard Red
Sox fan.
"Roger Clemens is not a great American," Burns said during an
otherwise routine State Department briefing. "Roger Clemens will
never be able to say what Ted ...