List of Wesley Clark's Honors and Awards:

-1st in Class, West Point, 1966
-Rhodes Scholar, Oxford University
-White House Fellowship
-Ranger Badge
-Paratrooper Wings
-Combat Infantryman's Badge
-Bronze Star (with Oak Leaf Cluster)
-Silver Star
-Purple Heart
-Army Commendation Medal (two awards)
-Defense Distinguished Service Medal (5 awards) -Legion of Merit (four awards)
-Meritorious Service Medal (two awards)
-Kosovo Campaign Medal
-Commander of the Legion of Honor (France)
-Commander's Cross, The Silver Order of Freedom of the Republic of Slovenia
-Commemorative Medal of the Minister of Defense of the Slovak Republic First Class (Slovakia)
-Cross of Merit of the Minister of Defense First Class (Czech Republic)
-First Class Order of Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas (Lithuania)
-Grand Cross of the Medal of Military Merit (Portugal)
-Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
-Grand Medal of Military Merit (White Band) (Spain)
-Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
-Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Italy
-Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (UK)
-Knight Grand Cross in the Order of Orange-Nassau, with Swords (Netherlands)
-Madarski Konnik Medal (Bulgaria)
-Military Service Cross of Canada
-Order of Merit of Argentina
-Order of Merit of Morocco
-Order of Merit of the Hungarian Republic
-Order of the Cross of the Eagle (Estonia)
-The Commander's Cross with Star of the Order of Merit of Republic of Poland
-The Grade of Prince Butmir w/Ribbon and Star (Croatia)
-The Grand Cordon of the Order of Leopold (Belgium) The Skandeberg Medal (Albania)
-NATO Medal for Service (2 awards)

Civilian Awards:
-Presidential Medal of Freedom
-Jit Trainor Award for Distinction in the Conduct of Diplomacy from Georgetown U.
-Lady Liberty Award by Goals for America Foundation for "National Security and World Peace."

"Major Clark is the most outstanding Major I have ever seen. Brilliant, innovative, hardworking, and extremely enthusiastic, professional in every respect - I can not praise him too highly...The fact that General Haig selected him for his personal staff is indicative of his caliber. Further, his gracious wife is a distinct asset to him and to the Army."
-From the Award of the Silver Star, as presented to Capt. Clark after he was wounded in battle in Vietnam, February, 1970

Gen. Clark's Record of Honor and Integrity

"Major Clark is the most able White House Fellow I have known during my seven years in Washington...He brought to his work a brilliant mind and rare common sense. He has initiative, style, imagination, moral courage, and integrity--each in extraordinary degree...He has a rare sensitivity to others and a remarkable ability to motivate and lead them....He is totally dedicated to public service as a military officer."
-James T. Lynn, Director, Office of Management and Budget, July 8, 1976

"He is unquestionably one in a million. A professional whose perceptions are correct, whose plans are thorough and complete, whose executions are artistic, and whose success is inevitable....I have never been more impressed with an officer's talent and dedication. He should rank with men like Douglas MacArthur, Maxwell Taylor, Creighton Abrams..."
-Colonel Charles G. Prather IV, June 23, 1977

"Major Clark is one of the most outstanding officers of his grade in the U.S. Army...an officer of impeccable character with a rare blend of personal qualities and professional attributes which uniquely qualify him as a soldier-scholar. While he has the intellectual grasp of world affairs attained only by the top scholars in the field, he projects soldierly qualities of strength, character, leadership, and above all an unyielding sense of personal responsibility. It is this sense of responsibility that clearly sets him apart from his contemporaries. [He] has the intellectual, moral and physical stamina, coupled with an unrelenting quest for excellence, which insures the completion of every task to near perfection. Major Clark's earnestness, sincerity of purpose and absolute dedication convey a moral force in his work which gives him a significant voice in this headquarters..."
-General Alexander M. Haig, Jr., July 19, 1978

"Clark exhibits the best balance of professional ethics of any officer I know. Particularly noteworthy is his demonstrated selfless dedication to his men, his unit, and the Army. He exhibits absolute integrity of word, deed... he establishes and observes scrupulous ethical and moral standards."
-Colonel Lester E. Bennett, June 2, 1980

"Wes Clark has been a superb battalion commander and will be a superb brigade commander. He is officer of the rarest potential and will clearly rise to senior general officer rank. He will be one of the Army's leaders in the 1990's."
-General Colin Powell, May 21, 1982

"Wes Clark has the character and depth to be another Marshall or Eisenhower in time of war."
-Brigadier General William W. Crouch, March 16, 1988

"Professional and moral attributes are impeccable. Strong in all areas. Best leader-thinker in the Army....a great leader who takes care of soldiers and families.... He has it all and has done it better than anyone else."
-General Edwin Burba, Jr., March 20, 1992

"General Wesley Clark carried out the policy of the NATO alliance, which was to stop massive ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, with great skill, integrity and iron determination."
-President Wm. Clinton, December 16, 2003

"I asked a whole lot of my friends who were generals and colonels and majors, who served over General Clark and under General Clark, and every last one of them said to me that this is a good man, and if he were leading our nation they would be proud. Son of the South capable of making a dangerous world a safer place for everybody. A man we are going to make the next president of the United States."
- Ambassador Andrew Young, Dec. 21, 2003
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MAJ. GEN. ROBERT SCALES: I've known Wes for 40 years; he's also a passionate, committed, empathetic individual. So, soldiers in wartime have to lead soldiers into battle and the lives of men and women are at stake. And sometimes that requires a degree of flintiness that you don't need in other professions.

HUME: What about those who suggest that his character reflects a kind of unbridled ambition that puts his career above all things, fair?

SCALES: No. No. Unfair. Again, like I say, I've known him all my adult life. He is an individual who is committed to a higher calling. I mean he's got three holes in him and a Silver Star from Vietnam. He has a…the word patriot only partially describes his commitment to public service. And for as long as I've known him, he's always looked, you know, beyond himself and he's been committed to serving the nation. And I think what you are seeing happen here recently is an example of that.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,97689,00.html

Lt. Gen. James Hollingsworth, one of our Army's most distinguished war heroes, says: "Clark took a burst of AK fire, but didn't stop fighting. He stayed on the field 'til his mission was accomplished and his boys were safe. He was awarded the Silver Star and Purple Heart. And he earned 'em."
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_I...

General Barry McCaffrey:

"[He] is probably the most intelligent officer I ever served with," McCaffrey said. "[He has] great integrity, sound judgment and great kindness in dealing with people. He is a public servant of exceptional character and skill."
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uselections2004/story/0,13918...

"I have watched him at close range for 35 years, in which I have looked at the allegation, and I found it totally unsupported," said retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey, who taught with Clark at West Point in the 1970s. "That's not to say he isn't ambitious and quick. He is probably among the top five most talented I've met in my life. I think he is a national treasure who has a lot to offer the country."
McCaffrey acknowledges that Clark was not the most popular four-star general among the Army leadership. "This is no insult to Army culture, a culture I love and admire," McCaffrey said, "but he was way too bright, way too articulate, way too good-looking and perceived to be way too wired to fit in with our culture. He was not one of the good old boys."
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Defense Secretary William Perry who, as deputy defense secretary first encountered Clark in 1994 when he was a three-star on the Joint Staff: "I was enormously impressed by him," said Perry, a legendary Pentagon technologist who served as defense secretary under Clinton.
Perry was so impressed, in fact, that with Clark facing retirement unless a four-star job could be found for him, Perry overrode the Army and insisted that Clark be appointed commander of the U.S. Southern Command, one of the military's powerful regional commanders in chief, or CINCs. "I was never sorry for that appointment," Perry said.
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Gen. John Shalikashvili, chairman of the Joint Chiefs overrode the Army once again and made sure Clark became Supreme Allied Commander Europe, traditionally the most powerful CINC, with command of all U.S. and NATO forces on the continent.
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Col. Douglas Macgregor: "There is this aspect of his character: He is loyal to people he knows are capable and competent," Macgregor said. "As for his peers, it's a function of jealousy and envy, and it's a case of misunderstanding. Gen. Clark is an intense person, he's passionate, and certainly the military is suspicious of people who are intense and passionate. He is a complex man who does not lend himself to simplistic formulations. But he is very competent, and devoted to the country."
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Col. David Hackworth: "I'm impressed. He is insightful, he has his act together, he understands what makes national security tick--and he thinks on his feet somewhere around Mach 3. No big surprise, since he graduated first in his class from West Point, which puts him in the super smart set with Robert E. Lee, Douglas MacArthur and Maxwell Taylor.

from "Waiting For The General":

I spoke recently with retired General Walter Kross, a former four-star Air Force general under whom Clark served on the staff of the Joint Chiefs in the mid-1990s. For two years Kross worked with Clark from 6:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night six days a week, and sometimes on Sundays. He disagrees strongly with Shelton and Cohen about Clark's abilities and character. When I asked him why Clark was disliked by some military officers, Kross replied,

"He's not the army general officer from central casting. He's the extra-ordinary senior officer who can do extra-ordinary work on the entire range of challenges senior officers have to face—including Kosovo and the Dayton Accords, on which he worked himself into exhaustion. No army officer from central casting can do that work, but Wes did."

He added, "Some senior officers misinterpret drive, energy, and enthusiasm for overambition...he is outside the mold and that makes some other officers uncomfortable."

...According to three former Clinton aides, when Clinton approved the list of appointments submitted to him by Cohen, including the selection of General Joseph W. Ralston as the new commander of the NATO forces, it wasn't made clear to the President that this would cut Clark's term as the supreme commander by nearly three months. (Of this, Clinton later said at a press conference in Europe, "I had nothing to do with it.") Despite having been treated badly, Clark continued to serve for the following nine months. Clinton was reportedly furious when he realized the mistake that had been made, but he didn't want to go back on it lest he look indecisive, or further alienate military officials, with whom he had been on bad terms since the beginning of his presidency.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16795