Word: laird
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...letter chiding Nixon for ignoring the agonizing question of the young has widened his estrangement from the power center; his criticisms of the Administration now extend to the war, economic policy, White House organization, treatment of the press and the leadership vacuum. At one dinner, Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, a longstanding Nixon loyalist, concluded that the Cambodia invasion should have been quietly announced in Saigon as an expanded "raid" rather than trumpeted as something like Armageddon by Nixon on national television. At another party, Labor Secretary George Shultz argued intently that the time has come to put a muzzle...
Listening to testimony by Defense Secretary Melvin Laird and Admiral Thomas Moorer, soon to be Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Senator William Fulbright declared: "I have been hornswoggled long enough!" Then he asked Moorer whether he knew of "any plans now to invade any other country in the foreseeable future." Senator Albert Gore accused Nixon of informing leaders of veterans' and retired officers' groups about his Cambodian plans two days before Congress and the nation were told on April 30. The White House denied it. Other, less vehement critics of the war were also...
...antiwar reservists seek a court order compelling Defense Secretary Melvin Laird to "remove from the rolls" all congressional reservists-which would include 29 members of key committees that deal with defense, foreign policy and appropriations. "As citizens and taxpayers," claimed Adam Hochschild, co-chairman of the Reservists Committee to Stop the War, "we are deprived of the unbiased judgment of these members of Congress on war and defense policy...
...news of a less technical nature. The cut in downpayment requirements on margin purchases, from 80% to 65%, decreed early this month by the Federal Reserve Board, immediately increased the purchasing power of stock buyers-but it bucked up the market for only a few days. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird's promise last week that no U.S. troops would be involved in ground combat in Viet Nam after June 1971 is the sort of thing that a year ago might have stimulated dovish Wall Street into a month-long rally. Early last week, it could not push prices...
When Henry Ford II was feted in Moscow last month, and invited to help build a Soviet truck plant, one unknown factor was what the Nixon Administration's ultimate attitude would be. Last week Defense Secretary Melvin Laird delivered a blunt answer: "I am against exporting American technology to the Soviet Union while they are sending trucks to North Vietnam." Ford had already rejected a similar Laird comment as "not only highly misleading, but also a gratuitous attack upon my common sense and patriotism." Last week, however, at the company's annual meeting, he unhappily bowed...