Clark M. Clifford

Clark M. Clifford

Clark McAdams Clifford (born December 25, 1906 in Fort Scott , Bourbon County , Kansas , † October 10, 1998 in Bethesda , Maryland ) was an American lawyer who served US Presidents Truman , Kennedy , Johnson and Carter and was born in 1968 / 69 served as Secretary of Defense of the United States under Johnson and legal advisor to the White House under Truman.

Clifford was US Secretary of Defense from February 29, 1968 to January 20, 1969. He essentially retained the strategy of his predecessor Robert McNamara in Vietnam . In 1989, Clifford was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . From 1963 to 1968 he was on the US President's Intelligence Advisory Board.

His final resting place is at Arlington National Cemetery .

literature

• Acacia, John. Clark Clifford: The Wise Man of Washington . Lexington, KY, Univ. of Kentucky, 2009. (Eng.)
• Clifford, Clark M., with Richard Holbrooke. Counsel to the President: A Memoir. New York: Random House, 1991. (Eng.)

Web links

• Oral History Interviews with Clark M. Clifford, Truman Presidential Library
• Transcript, Clark M. Clifford Oral History Interview , 3/13/69, by Joe B. Frantz, Internet Copy, LBJ Library. Accessed April 3, 2005.
• Interview about the Berlin Blockade for the WGBH series, War and Peace in the Nuclear Age
• Clark Clifford in the Miller Center of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia (English)

• Clark Clifford in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Clark M. Clifford in the archive of the Austrian Media Library