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...House specialist on Vietnam told me: "If what you say is right, everything we are doing in Vietnam is wrong." Some other bureaucrats reacted in a similarly negative fashion. On the other hand, many officials, including Ambassador Averell Harriman, Under Secretary Nicholas Katzenbach, and Secretary of Defense-Designate Clark Clifford, were sympathetic to my criticisms. The report did, I think, have some effect on official Washington's perceptions of the social-political situation in Vietnam in the winter of 1968 and made some contribution to the series of developments which brought about the change in U.S. policies in March...
Center of Power. The Johnsoniana is augmented by the papers of important contemporaries, including Clark Clifford and Drew Pearson. Says Library Director, Harry Middleton: "Dean Rusk gave us his appointment books, which is all he took from the State Department except for his hat." L.B.J.'s penchant for record keeping is not limited to the stuff of archives: the library also houses an exact replica of the Oval Office, complete with the three-set television console, and bronze-backed display cases containing the Johnson daughters' wedding dresses. Lady Bird Johnson, who chose the library site, and has been...
This offbeat approach is also reflected in Church's references to Lewis Carroll, Clifford Odets, the Gershwin brothers and others who do not normally appear in business stories. For instance, Church once began a story about bank closings with the Gershwin lines: "Who cares what banks fail in Yonkers/Long as you've got a kiss that conquers...
NCID members, mostly Democrats, include former Attorneys General Nichol??s Katzenbach and Ramsey Clark; former Defense Secretary Clark M. Clifford; former U.N. Ambassadors Charles W. Yost and Arthur Goldberg; and Cleveland Mayor Carl Stokes...
...Clark M. Clifford...