Page "Clark Clifford" Paragraph 20

Eventually Clifford moved very close, with Johnson's tacit support, to the views McNamara held on Vietnam just before he left office — no further increases in U. S. troop levels, support for the bombing halt, and gradual disengagement from the conflict.

By this time Clifford clearly disagreed with Secretary of State Dean Rusk, who believed, according to The Washington Post, " that the war was being won by the allies " and that it " would be won if America had the will to win it.

" He later recalled how he turned against the war: " I found out that we couldn ’ t win the war with the limitations that we had, which I thought were correct limitations, and I thought all we were going to do was just waste the lives of our men and our treasure out in the jungles of North and South Vietnam.