Offered: Signed First Edition Marny Cliffords WASHINGTON COOKBOOK. E. P. Dutton (1972). Night blue boards , gilt title on spine, Solid square binding, 541 pp. dust jacket not price clipped, slight rumpled rear and soiling white DJ cover, book and interiorbook very good plus. Signed at the half title in red ink. Scarce signed 1st ed. on half title.
**Margery "Marny" Kimball Clifford, 91, a cookbook author and interior decorator who was the widow of former Defense secretary and presidential adviser Clark M. Clifford, died of heart ailments April 14 at home in Bethesda.
Mrs. Clifford settled in the Washington area after World War II when her husband, then a Navy officer, became an adviser to President Harry S. Truman. She came here from her native St. Louis, where she had founded and become the first president of the St. Louis Opera Guild. She also studied painting in St. Louis.
In the Washington area, Mrs. Clifford was known as an accomplished hostess and a superlative cook. She was a graduate of the Fannie Farmer School of Cooking in Boston and the author in 1972 of her own cookbook, "Marny Clifford's Washington Cookbook."
**Clark M. Clifford
Lyndon Johnson Administration
March 1, 1968 – January 20, 1969
On 19 January 1968 President Johnson announced his selection of Clark M. Clifford to replace Robert McNamara as Secretary of Defense. Clifford was born in Fort Scott, Kansas, on 25 December 1906, received a law degree at Washington University, and practiced law in St. Louis between 1928 and 1943. He served as an officer with the Navy from 1944 to 1946, including assignment as assistant naval aide and naval aide to the president. After separation from the Navy, he held the position of special counsel to the president from 1946 to 1950. During this period he participated extensively in the legislative efforts that resulted in the National Security Act of 1947 and its 1949 amendments.
After leaving the government in 1950, Clifford practiced law in Washington but continued to advise the White House occasionally. In 1960 he was a member of President-elect Kennedy's Committee on the Defense Establishment, headed by Stuart Symington. In May 1961 Kennedy appointed him to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, which he chaired beginning in April 1963. After President Johnson entered office, Clifford served frequently as an unofficial counselor and sometimes undertook short-term official duties, including a trip with General Maxwell Taylor in 1967 to Vietnam and other countries in Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Clifford estimated that in the year prior to his appointment as secretary of defense he had spent about half of his time advising the president and the other half with his law firm.
Widely known and respected in Washington and knowledgeable on defense matters when he became secretary of defense on 1 March 1968, Clifford was generally hailed as a worthy successor to McNamara. Many regarded the new secretary as more of a hawk on Vietnam than McNamara and thought his selection might presage an escalation of the U.S. military effort there. Clifford attempted to allay such fears when, responding to a query on whether he was a hawk or dove, he remarked, "I am not conscious of falling under any of those ornithological divisions."
Vietnam occupied most of Clifford's time and attention during his less than 11 months in office. He did not change the management system McNamara installed at the Pentagon and for the most part assigned internal administration to Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul H. Nitze. Clifford made no effort to depart from McNamara's policies and programs on such matters as nuclear strategy, NATO, and military assistance, but he favored the Sentinel ABM system McNamara had given only lukewarm backing. He wanted to deploy the system and supported congressional appropriations for it. One important effect of Sentinel construction, he thought, would be to encourage the Soviet Union to enter arms control talks with the United States. Indeed, before Clifford left office, the Johnson administration made arrangements for negotiations that eventually led to the ABM limitation treaty in 1972.