Word: laird
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much attention, publicity, image-building and all that jazz emanating from the skilled practitioner in the White House. What the Republicans did, naturally, was to set up a committee. It consisted of six Senators and six Representatives, and was led by Wisconsin's energetic Congressman Melvin R. Laird...
...skilled veteran of four Republican Convention platform fights, Laird drove the committee hard in twice-weekly meetings. He solicited the views of top Republicans in and out of Congress, showed a 4,000-word draft to Dwight Eisenhower, accepted some of Ike's ideas verbatim, followed the ex-President's advice to cut the document to 2,500 words...
...public reaction to this having been satisfactory, relates Laird Bell '04, then President of the Alumni Association and the man responsible for inviting Marshall to speak at Harvard, "the Secretary of State determined to go all out for what has become known as the Marshall Plan, and a speech was prepared accordingly. The question was then the rostrum from which it should be delivered. Two or three suggestions were made, and then the Secretary remembered that he had been invited to receive a Harvard degree and that seemed a highly suitable occasion. He therefore indicated that he would like...
There, Texas Democrat George Mahon was opposed on principle to Vinson's order-and-direct move; but Mahon, a cautious fellow, declined to fight Vinson openly. Instead, two of the subcommittee's ablest Republican members, Michigan's Gerald R. Ford and Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, threw themselves into the overt fight against Vinson. They enlisted the support of Republican Floor Leader Charles Halleck-who had never quite forgiven Vinson for helping round up Southern votes to liberalize the conservative House Rules Committee...
...LAIRD IRISH Minneapolis