Word: laird
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President discussed congressional distress at the guilty verdict by telephone with his party's leader in the House, Representative Gerald Ford of Michigan-although the White House insists it was not the President who brought up the subject. Another was that he bypassed Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird when he ordered Calley removed from the stockade. Laird, who now hints that he opposed Nixon's intervention, heard about it only after the fact...
...supply routes for as long as the North Vietnamese allowed them to do so, and no longer. Once the North Vietnamese counterattacks began in earnest this month, the Saigon troops were quickly forced to retreat to the relative safety of South Vietnam. Even Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird had to admit Wednesday that the South Vietnamese had been forced to cut short their invasion because of North Vietnamese resistance, which he curiously described as "vicious and violent...
Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird said the South Vietnamese operation into Laos ended sooner than plannedbecause of "the tremendously vicious and violent reaction on the part of the North Vietnamese...
...Washington, Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird said that the North Vietnamese had reacted in a "very vicious, violent fashion." A Pentagon spokesman said that Saigon troops "have won the battle so far..." He de-scribed the campaign as a successful test of the Vietnamization program...
...Administration battles for more military funds, its most fearsome weapon may be its terminology. An annual report to Congress by Laird concludes with one of those tidy Pentagon charts, replete with arrows, boxes and converging lines, and a title that tries to sum up the Nixon-Laird approach: FOREIGN POLICY OBJECTIVE OF LASTING PEACE AND FREEDOM THROUGH NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY OF REALISTIC DETERRENCE AND A FOREIGN POLICY STRATEGY OF VIGOROUS NEGOTIATION...