Word: laird
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...information from emissaries abroad. David Bruce, chief U.S. negotiator in Paris, kept him up to date on the peace talks. Henry Kissinger reported back from meetings in South Viet Nam, Thailand, India and Pakistan, and was scheduled to go to Paris at week's end. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird spent the week in Japan, where he stressed the fact that his hosts must assume a greater share of the defense burden in the Pacific once the U.S. withdraws from Viet Nam. This week he goes to South Korea to discuss the ramifications of withdrawal. Vice President Agnew...
...pronouncements no longer sound convincing, especially in the wake of the Pentagon papers. What is more, Hanoi's top negotiators in Paris let it be known that they are "ready" to meet Kissinger when he reaches Paris late this week. It seemed odd, too, that Defense Secretary Melvin Laird happened to be journeying across the Pacific on a tour of inspection...
...chairman of the board, Patrick Frawley Jr. Mamie Eisenhower presided like a kind of surrogate grandmother. Martha Mitchell came extravagantly dressed in a vaguely antebellum orange and white ruffled, ankle-length gown and carrying a bright yellow parasol. She brought it into the Rose Garden, leading Melvin Laird to grump: "I thought everybody checked their umbrellas inside...
...approval, the ABM program can be modified to fit any possible agreement. Until an accord is reached, the U.S. intends to go ahead with additional ABM sites as well as with the deployment of MIRV, multiwarhead missiles designed to penetrate the Soviet Galosh (ABM) network. Said Defense Secretary Melvin Laird: "It is clear that our strength has made possible the hope for success at SALT...
Kissinger's ascendance took an additional toll on the functioning of the Cabinet departments and stifled any useful ideas which might otherwise have originated in them. Neither Rogers nor Secretary Laird has been as forceful and persuasive an advocate as Kissinger, and, as a result, their immediate assistants-the men who feed position papers to Kissinger and his staff-have been less likely to take risks and back their department heads up. The result has been a near monotony of viewpoint; the crucial policy recommendations have come almost uniformly from Kissinger's office...