Word: laird
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...resent the restrictions on their behavior, the intrusions into their privacy which they must tolerate to receive welfare benefits. Even the liberals who don't care about economic efficiency join Friedman here; the issue of human dignity makes them allies. However, many liberals suspect that Republican Congressmen, like Melvin Laird of Wisconsin, will try to pass minimal subsidy legislation as a justification for other cuts in welfare spending, leading to a net reduction of aid to the poor. This certainly bothers many moderates and liberals who would otherwise support subsidy legislation, and makes them afraid of doing anything that would...
...JOYCE K. LAIRD...
...saved up this money so that someday we can give the club a new building," Robert W. Laird '52 said last night. "It's entirely separate from the club's expenses. They're supposed to take care of themselves...
Wisconsin's Melvin Laird also backed Goldwater in 1964, and is not committed to any candidate this year. As chairman of the House Republican Conference, Laird said, his principal concern was which presidential nominee could help elect the most Republican Congressmen. Laird thinks Rockefeller is that man; and the latest Louis Harris poll, matching Rockefeller, Nixon, Romney and Ronald Reagan against Lyndon Johnson, supports Laird's view. The survey found Rockefeller and Johnson tied. Nixon trailed by nine points, Romney by 13 and Reagan by 14. But, warned Laird, Rockefeller cannot afford to wait until the convention, because...
...trust him more than Winston Churchill, whose rhetorical afflatus invites suspicion that the great man perhaps tended to force history into his own dramatic cast of mind. It was, however, as Churchill's man, his emissary (his "dogsbody" as the English say, or his gillie, as a Scottish laird might say) that Macmillan played a large, though unobtrusive role in the war. He had spent the first 21 exhausting but unrewarding months as parliamentary liaison man with various wartime ministries. He had survived the boredom of the phony war and a bomb in the Carlton Club that might have...