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Despite the earnestness of Kissinger's trip, that rearmament duel fed fears that the Nixon Administration's most impressive accomplishment, relaxation between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., might be in grave jeopardy. Much of the week's early rhetoric was hardly encouraging. Presidential Adviser Melvin Laird complained publicly to correspondents that "the only manner in which détente can be proven is by deeds, not words, and the Soviet Union has not been performing as if détente were here." A recognition that the new relationship was an enveloping issue in the crisis was echoed...
...Anne Armstrong. "He asked me to get on the phone and sound out opinion all around the country," she said. And he added: "It may not come to mind, but you tell them I want the names of qualified women as well as men." Counsellors Bryce Harlow and Mel Laird were summoned and given the same instructions, and soon messages to Republican Governors, national committeemen and women and other key party pros were winging from the White House...
...Powers model in New York City before her marriage. She shuns politicking, concentrating instead on their three sons and one daughter, and once proudly described the family as "squares." Ford's closest friends tend to be other Republican leaders, among them Nixon's domestic adviser, Mel Laird...
...series of what Agnew Press Secretary J. Marsh Thompson calls "heart-to-heart talks." Reston, unable to secure a private interview with Richard Nixon since the Oregon primary in 1968, has used his private détente with Agnew to stay abreast of Administration thinking. (Henry Kissinger and Melvin Laird have also "kept in touch," Reston says.) Agnew, in turn, has benefited from rather gentle treatment in Reston's influential column. Last February, for instance, Reston quoted approvingly a remark Agnew made in a speech before the Minnesota Press Association: "The fact is that the Nixon Administration...
When both Haig and Laird denied that they were the sources for the Agnew-is-going stories, newsmen turned to Deputy White House Press Secretary Gerald Warren to find out the thinking of the President. What Warren did not say turned out to be as valuable a clue as what he did say. As the President's diligent echo, Warren could have rescued Agnew from his humiliation by merely giving the slightest sign of support. Instead, Warren had "no comment" to questions about Broder's story in the Post, with one notable exception...