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...guns lined up behind the plan. Defense Secretary Melvin Laird announced that he had ordered all services to begin the "zero draft" campaign immediately; Army Chief of Staff William Westmoreland vowed that "unnecessary irritants and unattractive features of Army life" will be eliminated as quickly as possible; and Laird's top manpower assistant, Roger T. Kelley, spent 90 minutes briefing newsmen on the program...
...interim, the subcommittee will continue its efforts to make sense out of the executive branch responses to our inquiries about Government data banks. In particular, I have asked Secretary of Defense Laird to declassify the reams of directives and regulations in which Defense Department agencies have buried their response to our questionnaire asking what surveillance programs they maintain for monitoring activities of law-abiding civilians...
Marginal Seats. Of 435 congressional districts, only 69 are considered marginal-won by 5% or less of the total vote m the last election. Obey squeaked through with a mere 51.5% in a 1969 special election to choose a successor to Melvin Laird, who had resigned to become Secretary of Defense. It is in such close races that the tilt of the next House of Representatives will be determined...
Subsequently, Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird has appointed an Inter-Service Task Force on Education and Race Relations to develop an educational program for use throughout the Armed Forces. Commanders at Lejcune and elsewhere have modified their restrictions on Afro haircuts and black power salutes and banners...
...again at 3 a.m. to keep him advised. The President asked for a new reading on what should be done, called Kissinger back in just three minutes to get a report. Next day, Nixon created a new crisis group, dubbed &#quot;the principals&#quot; consisting of Kissinger, Laird, Rogers, Moorer and Packard. They worked over each recommendation of the Action Group for Nixon's benefit...