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These days, a tourist might recognize Melvin Laird talking on a bench with Kentucky's former Senator John Sherman Cooper, or former White House Chief of Staff H.R. Haldeman striding briskly between points of ex ile. Here and there, among the office workers brown-bagging lunch on the grass, may be seen other men talking White quietly in House the gates - sunshine because only beyond there the could they be sure they were speaking only to each other. Or so they may think...
...into a friend of Melvin Laird's [the new White House domestic czar] out West, and he felt Laird would be cut in a couple of months," said a Washington lawyer...
...Laird, Bryce Harlow, the new White House political operative, and Al Haig, the chief of staff, are fighting this crushing weight of discouragement. So is Nixon in a way, but he remains a distracted-and now ill-man. ("How do we get him out of that cocoon?" worried one White House official last week...
Last week Melvin Laird, the new White House domestic affairs adviser, told the Washington Post that Ziegler might be replaced altogether as principal spokesman. That would mean more exposure -and heat - for Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren, 42, a genial sort who seems to have won the season's most dubious assignment. "This White House," says Victor Gold, formerly Spiro Agnew's press secretary, "could make Saul of Tarsus look like an idiot in two days, with the things they give their spokesmen...
...decided on a program far less drastic than the freeze. The next morning, Nixon sent a memo to his advisers through Chief of Staff Alexander Haig asking for new information on a variety of economic matters. Administration aides speculated that the President was persuaded to change course by Melvin Laird, who had just signed on as Nixon's domestic affairs chief and promptly advocated bold economic moves...