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...discriminatory hiring practices, a group of students last year occupied a university building. It was a mild melee to protest the scarcity of non-whites among laborers on campus construction jobs. But Harvard took it seriously, recalling all contracts up for award and hiring as a consultant Clifford Alexander Jr., a black partner of the Washington firm of Arnold and Porter...
...thought it should. Far more than his earlier interview, it was his own tragedy on film, the first national look at the man as he really was behind the White House scenes. Johnson's hero was his loyal Secretary of State, Dean Rusk; his villain. Defense Secretary Clark Clifford. In Johnson's account of how he ordered the bombing of North Viet Nam partially halted on March 31, 1968, it was Rusk-not Clifford-who suggested the idea. Rusk. L.B.J. related, first broached the point March 4, and it was Rusk who argued against Clifford's proposal...
Initial Irritation. That is Johnsonian history. The ex-President ignores the long internal battle for Johnson's mind as related by Clifford and others. According to Johnson, there was no battle. He does not say that a draft of his March 31 speech as late as March 28 contained no mention of a bombing halt and took a hard line. Nor does he mention his three bellicose speeches given in March or his initial irritation at U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg's suggestion for a total bombing halt...
...said, "I'm telling you now, I am not going to stop the bombing." The recollection of the men involved in the argument was that Rusk talked of the possibility of a bombing pause, but only unenthusiastically as one alternative. Witnesses of those days insist that it was Clifford, not Rusk, who raised the first effective doubts in those councils...
Strewn with Longings. The former President also denied the contention of many-including Clifford-that a request for 206.000 more troops had come from the military in Saigon. Johnson said that he had initiated the request, but had asked only for "recommendations, not implementations." Again, the President's memory differs from that of people at the Pentagon, who do not recall directives to determine "if" new troops were needed, but only how many...