Word: laird
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Shultz high on Nixon's list of favorites. When some Cabinet members complained recently that they had trouble getting through to the President, Shultz said drily that he himself had no difficulty. Shultz has been one of only four Cabinet members -the others are Mitchell, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and Secretary of State William Rogers-whose calls always reach the President immediately. With that head start in Nixon's esteem, Shultz should have no trouble getting his ideas across in the White House. "Give him a year," says one Labor Department aide, "and he'll be running...
...Maurice Stans had an equally appreciative audience when he told Merchant Marine Academy graduates that "the destroyers of today will not survive any more than the witch burners of Colonial New England or the book burners of Hitler's Germany." At the Air Force Academy, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird said that the Administration is determined to move "from an era of confrontation to an era of negotiation." U.S. "ground combat involvement" in Viet Nam, he added, will end "on a reasonable schedule...
...Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird said that the South Vietnamese forces probably would make some limited attacks into Cambodia after the current operations come to an end and that he would urge that U.S. bombers continue to strike Communist areas in Cambodia after June 30 if necessary...
...Laird emphasized that there would be no American military advisers in Cambodia after June 30, but other officials in the Administration said that if South Vietnamese troops remained in Cambodia and needed tactical air support, it could not be denied them. Such support demands close coordination between ground and air units, and would almost certainly require U.S. advisers on the ground to direct the U.S. air attacks...
...many areas, however, ARVN's progress is still disappointing, and not even the intense euphoria of the Cambodian excursion can overcome low pay, corruption and lackluster leadership. True, U.S. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird began hinting last week that "the success of Vietnamization" could permit a speedup in U.S. withdrawal plans; instead of pulling out 150,000 troops by next spring, as President Nixon announced in April, the U.S. might bring home as many as 195,000. But the fact is that Vietnamization is six months behind in some respects. A high-command reorganization that was supposed to root...