Word: clark
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Later Humphrey withdrew his statement after Clark Clifford stated the Administration had "no intention" of withdrawing troops "either by next June or at anytime in the foreseeable future." The Secretary of Defense added that "we have not yet reached the level of 549,500 troops set up by President Johnson" and that "we intend to continue to build toward that level...
...however, no one can agree upon who won, let alone who the aggressors were or whether the battle need ever have occurred at all. When the President's commission on violence opened hearings in Washington last week, the nation's two top law officers, Attorney General Ramsey Clark and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover, were firing from opposing sides...
...Clark, of course, is technically Hoover's superior at the Justice Department. But after 44 years in charge of the FBI, Hoover is a law unto himself. For a man with experience in police work, he took an extraordinarily simplistic line about the Chicago cops' performance during the Democratic National Convention. "The police and the National Guard were faced with vicious attacking mobs who gave them no alternative but to use force to prevent these mobs from accomplishing their destructive purposes," Hoover told the commission...
Although he never mentioned Chicago directly, Clark gave a considerably cooler perspective. "Experience to date shows that such crowds [of demonstrators] can be controlled without denying rights of speech and assembly," he said. "Above all, such crowds can be controlled without excessive force and violence by police. Of all violence, police violence in excess of authority is the most dangerous. For who will protect the public when the police violate...
Former Harvard 12-letter winner, Forrester Clark '29, will referee the contest...