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Clark McAdams Clifford (December 25, 1906 – October 10, 1998) was an American lawyer who served as an important political adviser to Democratic presidents Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson, and Jimmy Carter.
The proposal was drafted by Clark Clifford, White House Counsel and Max Lowenstein. "The United States has proposed to the Security Council a temporary United Nations trusteeship for Palestine to provide a government to keep the peace.
On May 12, 1948, Truman met in the Oval Office with Secretary of State Marshall, Under Secretary of State Robert A. Lovett, Counsel to the President Clark Clifford, and several others to discuss the Palestine situation. Clifford argued in favor of recognizing the new Jewish state in accordance with the partition resolution.
In the months leading up to the British withdrawal from the region, the Truman administration debated whether or not to recognize the fledgling state of Israel. Overcoming initial objections from Marshall, Clark Clifford convinced Truman that non-recognition would lead Israel to tilt towards the Soviet Union in the Cold War. [122]
Dean Rusk with President Johnson and Robert McNamara, February 9, 1968. David Dean Rusk (February 9, 1909 – December 20, 1994) was the United States secretary of state from 1961 to 1969 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, the second-longest serving Secretary of State after Cordell Hull from the Franklin Roosevelt administration.
On June 5, 1967, Israel launched an attack on Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, beginning the Six-Day War. [55] Israel quickly seized control of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, East Jerusalem, and the Sinai Peninsula. As Israeli forces closed in on the Syrian capital of Damascus, the Soviet Union threatened war if Israel did not agree to a cease fire ...
Even Malcolm may have been pressured by Washington lawyer Clark Clifford, one of JFK's legal fixers, to sign an affidavit swearing that there had been no marriage.
By 1947 the United States found itself in a Cold War struggle against the USSR.With White House assistants Clark Clifford and George Elsey and State Department official Ben Hardy taking the lead, the Truman administration came up with the idea for a technical assistance program as a means to win the "hearts and minds" of the developing world after countries from the Middle East, Latin America ...