Word: laird
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...raid achieved a good press for the Administration: considering the facts that Laird and others have released, they could have accomplished little else. Laird broke up the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by saying that the intelligence for the operation was "excellent," adding that the U. S. did not yet possess a camera that could see through roofs, and so could not know whether the prisoners were there...
...weeks ago, North Vietnamese antiaircraft fire shot down an unarmed U.S. RF4 Phantom reconnaissance plane, killing the crew of two. Since then other reconnaissance flights have been fired on but not hit. Late last week the U.S. retaliated with what Defense Secretary Melvin Laird elaborately called "limited-duration protective-reaction air strikes"-a 24-hour series of raids involving nearly 150 U.S. fighter-bombers from airfields in South Viet Nam and Thailand and from carriers in the Tonkin Gulf. Radio Hanoi asserted that the U.S. had attacked the port of Haiphong and other targets in the northern part...
...After a 21-hour meeting of the National Security Council, President Nixon rejected Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's proposal for a 10% reduction in the 300,000-man U.S. force in Europe. The President's reasoning: the drawdown would unhinge Western European confidence in the U.S., debilitate NATO and undercut West Germany's attempts to normalize relations with the East bloc by rendering Western Europe too weak militarily to strike equitable bargains with the Communists...
...hopes of a better deal with Nixon. These dark rumors, which she denies, threatened her status as a hostess for a time, but today "the Dragon Lady of Watergate East" is very much en rapport with such men of power as Attorney General Mitchell, Secretary of Defense Laird and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover...
...Washington wives who take it all in stride are Adele Rogers and Barbara Laird, long comfortably ensconced in their smoothly functioning, swimming-pooled Bethesda homes. Both have been the capital route before?Defense Secretary Laird was a Congressman and Secretary of State Rogers was Eisenhower's Attorney General. "The wife of the Secretary of State has more fun than the wife of the Attorney General," says Mrs. Rogers. That may give Martha Mitchell ideas of making her presence felt in the soft-voiced world of high-level diplomacy...