Word: laird
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Skeptical. Secretary of State William Rogers and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird have been carrying the colors to Capitol Hill, where the White House hopes to get an increasingly skeptical Congress to approve the agreements by handsome margins.* Lately, Nixon himself has taken an active role in the lobbying. The President, who last met with newsmen way back in March, called two White House press conferences in the past two weeks. There was no doubt about what was on his mind. Nixon defended the Moscow accords as a "breakthrough." He insisted that he would not have signed them if he were...
WASHINGTON--Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird said Thursday that Sen. George McGovern's proposal to slash defense spending by $30 billion "would signal to the world a drastic decline in America's will and ability to contribute to international stability...
Leading the Nixon administration attack against the Democratic presidential nomination front-runner on the eve of the Miami Beach convention, Laird again characterized McGovern's program as "tantamount to a white flag of surrender...
...called white flag budget substitutes a philosophy of give-away now, beg later, for a philosophy of strength and willingness to 'negotiate' as followed by the Nixon administration," Laird said at a news conference in which he released two documents containing the Pentagon's analysis of McGovern's proposals...
...same speech, Laird said that South Vietnamese, after the initial setbacks on the northern front were performing well and he was pleased with their progress...