Word: laird
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Other changes are expected in Cabinet positions. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird has made clear to reporters his intention to leave; New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller, once a bitter Nixon critic, is rumored to be a possible successor. George Romney has announced his imminent departure as Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Assistant Secretary Samuel Jackson, a black, might give blacks more hope for racially enlightened housing policies; Donald Rumsfeld, director of the Cost of Living Council, has been mentioned too. Also expected to leave, although there has been little talk of who might replace them, are Labor Secretary James Hodgson...
...recognized "peace candidate." One reason, of course, lies in the troop reductions that, along with a sharp decline in draft calls and casualties, have largely neutralized the antiwar movement. But there is more to the President's strength in the polls than is indicated by Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's glib gibe that "the American public understands the difference between addition and subtraction." Some observers, among them Leslie Gelb, who headed the "Pentagon papers" study during the Johnson Administration, reckon that the real difficulty in sustaining protest against Nixon's handling of the war began after...
Paris was outraged by the attack. President Nixon sent a personal message of apology to France's Georges Pompidou, and at a Washington press conference Defense Secretary Melvin Laird explained that the jets-which were not carrying the new superaccurate, laser-guided "smart" bombs-had really been aiming at railroad yards three miles away. Disingenuously, Laird tried to suggest that the damage might have been caused by North Vietnamese antiaircraft missiles...
Mercy. The publicity surrounding these tours incensed the Administration. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird unjudiciously speculated about whether the released prisoners could be court-martialed for permitting themselves to be used for propaganda purposes by North Viet Nam. But he quickly added that while he was Secretary of Defense any judicial action against the three "will be tempered with a great, great deal of mercy...
Until tighter international arrangements can be worked out, the U.S. is doing what it can unilaterally. President Nixon has appointed a Cabinet-level committee, including Rogers, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger, CIA Chief Richard Helms and Acting FBI Director L. Patrick Gray III, to oversee a war against terrorism on lines similar to the Administration's war on drugs. Nixon has promised them "every resource of this Government...