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...James Eastland and John Stennis to the White House for breakfast. He staged a ceremony for Southern Senators and Congressmen as he signed a $100 million appropriation for Mississippi River flood-control projects. He addressed a Republican congressional dinner and hosted a farewell gathering for his departed aide Melvin Laird...
...been publicizing Ford's visit at several Boston schools, including Boston University. In past protests, the Brigade has gone beyond picketing--it led the trashing of the Center for International Affairs here in the spring of 1972, and more recently threw eggs at former secretary of defense Melvin R. Laird when he spoke in Providence, R.I., in January...
...Neill said he was willing to try to work with the White House-especially with former Congressman Melvin Laird, who was then on Nixon's staff. When the two old acquaintances met, O'Neill told Laird: "We've got the votes to pass legislation. You've got the votes to sustain vetoes. Let's talk." Talk they did, and what emerged from the conference was compromises that led to the passage of such bills as the act reforming manpower training...
...South Vietnamese, however, the future is likely to be as grim as the past. Last week former Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird glumly predicted: 'The war in Southeast Asia will go on for perhaps another 20 years. It has gone on for 30 years already...
Despite such denials, the plumbers concluded that Radford and perhaps also Welander were clandestinely delivering national security information to the Joint Chiefs. But when the investigators followed the trail to the Pentagon and proposed giving lie detector tests to military personnel, Defense Secretary Laird threw them out. Laird also ordered J. Fred Buzhardt, then the Pentagon's general counsel, to find out what was going on. Buzhardt reported back that Radford and Welander had indeed provided high-ranking officers with copies of purloined classified information...