Word: laird
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...page document was drawn up by six college educators and three senior military officers. Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird ordered the review last spring in the wake of mounting dissent over ROTC...
Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird told the House Armed Services Committee last April. "We believe no congressional action is needed to protect ROTC...
...Despite Laird's opposition, conservatives on the committee wrote the 60-day provision into the bill. Under severe pressure from their constituents to "do something about campus radicals" they called for a Pentagon estimate of the "attitude" of the college along with the report about cooperation on military matters. The "attitude" sentence was struck out before the bill reached the floor of the House...
...ROTC off the campus, and that might make a chink in ROTC, which might cut into the war effort. But maybe things would be quicker and more effective if the bodies worked on the Defense Department of General Dynamics instead of sticking to the artificial limits of the university. Laird and Nixon and Nader all know that the system can stand the students as long as they stay on campus; Nader is the only one of the three that wants to tell the students...
Most of the Pentagon critics agreed that their defeat was caused by their own lack of organization and by Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's self-imposed cutback of $4.1 billion. Further, Laird promised more appropriations reductions over the next three years by cutting military personnel from 3.5 to 2.6 million men. Currently the military's payroll is $41 billion annually...