Word: laird
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republicans would agree more heartily with that sentiment than Melvin Laird, a bright, balding Congressman from Wisconsin, chairman of the 1964 Republican Platform Committee and a man who means to write a document acceptable to all G.O.P. factions. Says Laird: "We're not writing a Goldwater platform, a Rockefeller platform, a Scranton platform or a G.O.P. Governors platform-we're writing a Republican platform...
...American Position." Laird describes himself as "a creative conservative"; he is tightfisted on fiscal matters, and extremely knowledgeable in foreign affairs. Although only 41, he is serving his sixth term from central Wisconsin's dairy-minded Seventh District, which contains Marshfield (pop. 14,-600), his birthplace and still his home. He earned a B.A. from Minnesota's Carleton College, a Purple Heart in a kamikaze attack on his destroyer in World War II, entered politics through the Wisconsin state senate. Last year he wrote an introduction to a collection of scholarly essays known as The Conservative Papers...
MEET THE PRESS (NBC, 6-6:30 p.m.). Guest: Wisconsin Congressman Melvin R. Laird, 1964 chairman of the Republican Platform Committee...
...make painful election-year decisions involving war or peace, the Johnson Administration seized on the respite offered by the Reds and began softening its tough talk about intensifying the war in South Viet Nam or extending it to North Viet Nam. After Wisconsin's Republican Congressman Melvin Laird told a radio audience that "the Johnson Administration's position is to move north, and we are prepared to move north," the President told a news conference: "I know of no plans that have been made to that effect." Laird stuck to his guns, but in Hawaii, Rusk, McNamara...
...third key conventioneer-Platform Chairman Melvin Laird, 41, a Congressman from Wisconsin-is balding and a bit on the pudgy side. But that makes little difference; his role will be performed mostly off-camera...