Word: johnsons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...VIEW FROM THE WHITE HOUSE WITH MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). In dialogue with ABC's Howard K. Smith, Mrs. Johnson will explore her many faceted role as First Lady...
ESTHER E, JOHNSON...
What had happened to Clark Clifford? The question inevitably arose in Washington as the Secretary of Defense began taking his own distinctive line on Viet Nam, notably in his public rebukes of the South Vietnamese regime. Even officials high in the Johnson Administration were uncertain whether he was acting with the President's assent-or out of sheer foolhardiness. Some speculated that perhaps the President had grown passive as his term drew to a close and was simply allowing his Defense Secretary to take charge. Others were convinced that the President was in full agreement with what his longtime...
WHEN he went to the Pentagon in March, Clark Clifford was cast as a hawk. That was largely because Lyndon Johnson had told and retold the story of how Clifford, in the fall of 1965, had argued against what was to become a 37-day bombing halt over North Viet Nam. But the casting was misleading. Then chairman of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Clifford was opposed to a pause in the bombing principally because of its timing. The U.S. then was just beginning to build up its forces, and could ill afford the sudden upsurge...
...became an all-out advocate. In the privacy of Lyndon Johnson's bedroom, at policymaking luncheons on Tuesdays, in the upstairs dining room of the White House and at meetings of the Cabinet, Clifford pressed his view relentlessly, singlemindedly-and often singlehanded. He was opposed by such experienced, committed experts as Secretary of State Dean Rusk, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and National Security Adviser Walt Rostow. He also had to face down the President's enigmatic silences. At stake, he believed, was the survival...