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Lyndon Johnson had trouble enough with the 90th Congress, even though his own party controlled both houses. Richard Nixon, facing a Capitol Hill controlled by the opposition, will have to be a consummate politician if he is to get anything but misery from the 91st. Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, chairman of the House Republican Conference, concedes that the next President "will have to be the greatest salesman of the century" to get his programs across. While the real test of his powers of persuasion will not come for months, Nixon's moves so far have been calculated...
...magazine subjected U.S. business to the kind of critical scrutiny it had never undergone before. FORTUNE tended to be liberal; TIME was widely suspected of being rightist. TIME, indeed, harbored at least one genuine reactionary. Described by Luce as a man with the viewpoint of an "18th century gentleman," Laird Goldsborough served for 13 years as Foreign News editor. Devoted to property and royalty, he took Mussolini's side in the Ethiopian war During the Spanish Civil War, he characterized the Loyalists in TIME as a regime of "Socialists, Communists and rattlebrained Liberals that had emptied the jails...
...Vice President's chances? To minimize the impact of any such move, Nixon immediately countered that Humphrey is so anxious for a settlement of the war that he would endanger the U.S. negotiating position by promising cutbacks of U.S. combat forces. The next day, Wisconsin's Melvin Laird, a knowledgeable member of the House subcommittee on defense, accused Humphrey of "loose talk-dangerous, harmful talk -confusing and, in my view, irresponsible talk." Whereupon he proceeded to indulge in much the same sort of talk. By June, Laird went on to predict, the U.S. will "likely" have...
...Laird's motive was to give the impression that any troop reduction would be "in the normal course of events" and would therefore reflect no credit on the Democrats. The Administration quickly denied that any such reduction was envisioned. The U.S., said Defense Secretary Clark Clifford, is still building up to its authorized level of 549,500, and "we intend to continue...
...politically inspired exchange left in doubt the question of the U.S. troop level and of the course of the war it self. Clifford issued his denial of Laird's statement only at the President's orders. Pentagon officers naturally supported the Defense Secretary's statements. Yet other Administration sources suspect that both Laird and Humphrey may well be correct in their predictions that U.S. combat forces will be reduced...