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Many of those who stay believe that they can bring the President around to their view. Lyndon Johnson's second Defense Secretary, Clark Clifford, is proof of the value of boring from within. Coming into office only ten months before L.B.J.'s term ended, Clifford soon became convinced that the Government's Viet Nam policy was a disaster. Eventually he persuaded the President to stop the bombing of North Viet Nam and start deescalation. To many, resignation is simply unrealistic. Responding to students who wanted him to resign as a protest against Nixon's Cambodian foray...
...Died. Clifford R. Hope, 76, longtime (1927-56) Republican Congressman from Kansas; following a series of strokes; in Garden City, Kans. As an articulate champion of the farmer, Hope was largely responsible for the passage of the Soil Erosion Act (1935), the Hope-Aiken price-support law (1948) and the Farm Credit...
...intense that the Administration seemed to have reduced its room for military maneuver rather than extended it. McGeorge Bundy argued convincingly last week that the Cambodian action has been so rending that Nixon would not dare undertake anything like it again without congressional approval. Former Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, in a LIFE article appearing this week, took a sterner line toward the Administration and what he called Nixon's "curious obsession about Viet Nam and Southeast Asia." Clifford proposed 1) cessation of American combat activity by Dec. 31 and withdrawal of all military personnel...
...President could send forces back into Cambodia if he found it necessary to do so-and if he consulted congressional leaders. After first encouraging this tactic, the White House backed away from it. much to Scott's embarrassment. Republican Senators were irate. Said New Jersey's Clifford Case: "If the President stands on his constitutional rights and seeks a confrontation, as his advisers indicate he will do, then God help the country...
...Buzz Clifford, one assumes, didn't groove to cutting lawns and washing cars. But he had to find some way to earn money for malteds and the juke box. Baby sitting proved to be the answer. He sang about one of the toddlers in a memorable tune by what name...