Word: laird
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird's announcement Saturday of an immediate halt in the draft means an end to induction pressure for Harvard students without student deforments, an OGCP draft counselor said yesterday...
William Schendel explained that freshmen and sophomores will be most affected by Laird's announcement, since juniors and seniors received their draft classifications before Congress abolished student deferments...
...went to a Washington Redskins football game, then flew to Palm Springs, Calif., for a New Year's vacation. There, at one point, photographers discovered him strolling with Hollywood Executive Bob Evans. Kissinger's deputy, General Alexander Haig, was "on leave," and outgoing Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird was in Hawaii saying farewell to the Pacific Command. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler was on a week's vacation in California. Behind this all too casual facade was the Administration's determination that once the decision to bomb had been made, there was little to do but keep...
...instructive case history of the President's mind and decision-making apparatus at work. The move came after Nixon and Kissinger concluded that it was the proper course, and Kissinger, acting for Nixon, had consulted with and won the approval of Secretary of State William Rogers, Melvin Laird, CIA Director Richard Helms, Vice President Spiro Agnew and the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Because the agreement was complete, the National Security Council was not called into formal session to debate the proposition to unleash the full fury of U.S. air power on Hanoi...
...action came as a result of Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird's decision not to issue a January or February draft call. Daniel J. Cronin, deputy draft director in charge of operations, ordered the induction cancellation...