Word: laird
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of us simply don't know a lot of words. It doesn't really matter: I have a Newfie friend (from Newfoundland) who can say "Laird sufferin' Jesus" in so many ways that it provides specific judgment on everything from a collapsing derrick to a pretty girl at lunchtime. And I stayed on top of the Knights of Columbus building one afternoon after the work day was over, watching the tankers on New Haven Harbor turn slowly into black bugs as the sun went down behind Fisher's Island, while the man beside me, previously known to me only...
Further, the defense should have been permitted to call such higher-ups as then Defense Secretary Melvin Laird to bolster the argument that undue command influence had affected the trial. And the defense should have been given access to a confidential House Armed Services Committee report on My Lai. Judge Elliott cited Watergate and ruled that "the Supreme Court in deciding the Nixon [tapes] case also decided the Calley case...
September 15: Ford plays golf with Melvin Laird, former Republican congressman Jack Westland, and his friend Darius "Deke" Keatch, president of Trucker Oil Trade, Inc. He attends church. Later he greets the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts...
...Well, I think it was the right thing to do." Then the President went to the Burning Tree Club to play a round of golf with his old friend Melvin Laird...
Soon after, Laird was asked why Ford had acted just now instead of waiting until indictments had been returned. Said Laird: "The furor would have been much greater then. It is much easier now than it would have been afterward...