The Board of Directors of Flaherty & Crumrine/Claymore Total Return Fund Incorporated (NYSE:FLC) has announced that the Fund will optionally redeem approximately 27% of its outstanding auction preferred stock (�APS�) at a redemption price equal to the liquidation preference of $25,000 per share, plus the amount of accumulated but unpaid dividends, for consideration of approximately $10.5 million. Including this redemption, the Fund will have redeemed approximately 77% of its APS originally outstanding, and its leverage now includes a combination of APS and bank borrowing.

Subject to satisfying the notice and other requirements that apply to APS redemptions, shares of the Fund�s T7 series of APS are expected to be redeemed on April 15, 2009 and shares of the Fund�s W28 series are expected to be redeemed on April 16, 2009.

The Fund intends that the redemption of the following amounts of APS will be implemented on a pro rata basis by series:

FLC:

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No. of Shares

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No. of Shares

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Aggregate Amount

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CUSIP

Outstanding

Redeemed

Redeemed

T7 338479207 790 210 $5,250,000 W28 338479306 790 210 $5,250,000

Depository Trust Company (DTC), the holder of record, determines how a partial series redemption will be allocated among each participant broker-dealer account. Each participant broker-dealer, as nominee for underlying beneficial owners (street name shareholders), in turn determines how redeemed shares are allocated among its underlying beneficial owners. The procedures used by different broker-dealers to allocate redeemed shares among beneficial owners may differ from each other as well as from the procedures used by DTC.

FLC was organized in 2003 as a closed-end, diversified investment company. FLC invests primarily in preferred and other income-producing securities with a primary investment objective of high current income and a secondary objective of capital appreciation. FLC is managed by Flaherty & Crumrine Incorporated, an independent investment adviser which was founded in 1983 to specialize in the management of portfolios of preferred and related securities.

Website: www.fcclaymore.com

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