Clark Clifford: The Wise Man of Washington

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Clifford and Truman traveling by train to Fulton, Missouri, to attend Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech, March 5, 1946. U.S. Marine Corps, courtesy of Harry S. Truman Library. Clifford and Truman at Winston Churchill’s “Iron Curtain” speech, March 5, 1946. Terry Savage, courtesy of Harry S. Truman Library. Clifford and Truman in Key West, Florida, on December 19, 1949. U.S. Navy, courtesy of Harry S. Truman Library. President Kennedy and Clifford at the Distinguished Service Award ceremony in the White House Rose Garden, April 29, 1963. Cecil Stoughton, Office of the Military Aide (U.S. Army), courtesy of John F. Kennedy Presidential Library. Clifford attending a meeting in the White House on December 23, 1963, one month into Lyndon Johnson’s presidency. LBJ Library photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto. A national security meeting on Vietnam, July 21, 1965, four days before the July 25 Camp David showdown with Secretary McNamara. LBJ Library photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto. Meeting on Vietnam with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Secretaries of the Armed Services, July 22, 1965. LBJ Library photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto. Clifford at a national security meeting on Vietnam, July 26, 1965, the day after the Camp David showdown with McNamara. LBJ Library photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto. Oval Office meeting between Clifford and President Johnson, July 14, 1967. LBJ Library photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto. Vietnam meeting with the Wise Men on March 26, 1968, just prior to Johnson’s announcement that he was dropping out of the presidential race. LBJ Library photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto. Clifford in the Oval Office reacting to news of Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination , April 4, 1968. LBJ Library photo by Mike Geissinger. Left to right: Senator Richard Russell, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, Johnson, and Clifford meeting in the Cabinet room, October 14, 1968. LBJ Library photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto. Clifford and Rusk at a meeting in the Oval Office, October 22, 1968. LBJ Library photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto. Clifford and General Earle Wheeler on December 5, 1968. LBJ Library photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto. ...