Edwin N . Clark Edwin N . Clark ( 1902 – 1982 ) was born in Parkersburg , Iowa in 1902 . He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in June 1922 but resigned his commission in September of the same year . He immediately entered Harvard Law School and upon graduation practiced law in New York . During the period 1940 to 1945 Clark served two tours of active duty in the Army with preceding and intervening private consulting work related to military supply and logistics . Clark was involved in supply and ordnance matters during the North African campaign and served as Dwight D . Eisenhower ’ s Deputy G - 4 ( assistant chief of staff for logistics ) at SHAEF ( Supreme Headquarters Allied Expeditionary Force ) . After the war , Clark returned to private consulting work but continued to serve Eisenhower in several important ways . In the late 1940s , in conjunction with a small group of liberal Republicans , including Russell Davenport and Senator James Duff , Clark worked for the presidential candidacy of Dwight Eisenhower . As part of this planning group , Clark shuttled back and forth between the U . S . and Europe to ensure the secrecy of discussions with Eisenhower . The material documents Eisenhower ’ s early interest in the presidency and a 1951 meeting between Taft and Eisenhower . Documentation includes correspondence and Clark ’ s memoir . In 1949 , Clark undertook a second project for Eisenhower when asked to consider a means of assisting the financially distressed American Military Institute . Discussions resulted in a plan to reorganize the Institute under the auspices of Columbia University and broaden its scope to include the study of war and peace . Eventually Columbia established a separate Institute of War and Peace Studies , leaving the American Military Institute to secure other funding arrangements . There is extensive documentation of Clark ’ s efforts to establish the Institute of War and Peace Studies . He remained in contact with the Institute until the mid - 1950s . In 1951 , Clark became involved in a third Eisenhower project , Jo Davidson ’ s bust of Eisenhower . Through Clark ’ s efforts , a bust was placed at the U . S . Military Academy in 1953 . A year later a second bust was placed at the Royal Military College at Sandhurst . Then in 1980 , Clark became involved in a controversy over the illegal reproduction of the bust . Last , Clark served Eisenhower in the latter stages of the 1952 campaign by submitting a memorandum on U . S . Pacific policy , which he later elaborated to include mutual security matters . The documentation consists of the memorandum and a small quantity of related material . In 1949 , Clark became involved in the Institute for Creative Research , a public policy group organized by Russell Davenport . In 1953 , Clark ’ s consulting firm undertook an economic survey of the Dominican Republic . This study was completed in 1954 and submitted to Eisenhower in February 1955 . Last , in 1958 Clark joined a group of businessmen and scientists promoting the establishment of the International Institute for Scientific Research and the European Research Institute . This led to a memorandum , “ Plan for Scientific Cooperation in the Free World , ” which Clark sent to Eisenhower in April 1959 . Eisenhower ’ s science adviser , however , reviewed the proposal unfavorably . During the 1960s , Clark developed serious medical problems which necessitated giving up his consulting work and in part explains the dearth of documentation from this decade . In early 1970s , after regaining his health , Clark embarked upon a project to bring together documentation of the various important events of his career . He referred to the project as his curriculum vitae . The main facet of the project was the writing of his memoirs , but in preparing for the task he submerged himself in histories of the period , collected and organized primary documentation , and contacted people he had worked with in the course of his career . Some of the contacts led to meetings between Clark and his former associates for the purpose of compiling commentaries on their shared experiences .