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Perhaps this notion of taking bureaucracy into the field will catch on with other departments. Defense Secretary, Melvin Laird, for example, could spend the season at Khe Sanh, getting a sense of what his men are up against. Secretary of State, William Rogers, could summer in the Sinai, while Labor Secretary, James Hodgson, might spend August in downtown Detroit. A summer on Wall Street might hone Treasury Secretary, John Connally's mind. Commerce Secretary, Maurice Stans could work out of the Baltimore docks, and HEW Secretary, Elliot Richardson out of any slum of his choosing...
...only treaty were signed, many U.S. experts believe, the Russians might never come back to the bargaining table. Having stripped U.S. ICBM sites of their ABM protection, the argument goes, the Russians would proceed full blast with deployment of the S59 and even bigger missiles. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird recently reported that an "apparently extensive" new Soviet ICBM construction program is already in progress in south-central Russia...
...Christopher Laird, the son of an American journalist in Paris, will be stateless in five years unless he returns to the U.S. Reason: his British mother's government does not grant citizenship to the children of British mothers and foreign husbands. The French will not easily grant him citizenship. The boy was born in Switzerland, not France. And the Swiss do not recognize territorial birth...
...plausible scenario along these lines has Laird leaving the re-elected Administration in 1973 to run against Wisconsin Senator Gaylord Nelson. Nelson is more vulnerable than William Proxmire, Wisconsin's other Senator. More important, Nelson's seat comes up for grabs in 1974, time enough for Laird to garner sufficient national exposure for a run at the presidency...
Bypassed. On the other hand, Laird could elect to return to the House-he would be an odds-on favorite to regain his old seat in Wisconsin's Seventh District-to pursue his once announced ambition of becoming Speaker. "That is where he would feel most comfortable," says a friend, "and Laird has 14 to 20 years more public service in him. He could go for the big one later...