Word: laird
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert C. Seamans Jr. '40 was appointed Secretary of the Air Force for Nixon's administration, Secretary of Defense-designate Melvin Laird announced yesterday in Washington...
...Laird still lives in his Marshfield, Wis., birthplace, and the rockbed Republican Seventh District there gave him 64% of the vote in November. In his first term in 1953, he managed the unheard of freshman feat of getting on the powerful Appropriations Committee. Once there, he was named to the subcommittee that doles money out to the military, which led to his Pentagon expertise and, inevitably, to his seat on the Nixon Cabinet...
Carleton College-educated, Laird, 46, is one of the G.O.P.'s most considerable intellects. Though generally regarded as a conservative, his political views are hard to categorize. As one observer notes: "He's not antiDemocratic, or anti-this or that wing of the Republican Party. He's bigger than that, and he's friendlier than that." From his first day on the Hill, he has concentrated instead on a wide range of national issues...
After the 1964 Goldwater debacle, Laird recognized the need for change within the Republican Party. He decided -and the party agreed-that the Federal Government should be active in such fields as education and welfare, but only as backstop to states and local communities. A leading backer of the Viet Nam war, he made a calculated switch last year and argued that the Republicans must appear as the party of peace, that Viet Nam was something to hang around Lyndon Johnson's neck. Laird does not plan to visit Viet Nam until his appointment is confirmed by the Senate...
...will be Fred Grandy of Sioux City, Iowa, a Harvard junior who was his roommate through four years at Exeter. Among the more than 500 guests will be the members-designate of Nixon's Cabinet and their wives but, except for the incoming Secretary of Defense, Congressman Melvin Laird, there will be no Senators or Representatives on hand...