Word: melvin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...best locker-room and fraternity tradition, all the President's men had their nicknames. John Dean told the Ervin committee last year about H.R. ("The Brush") Haldeman and John ("The Pipe") Mitchell, but Magruder adds to the list. Transportation Secretary John Volpe was "The Bus Driver"; Defense Secretary Melvin Laird was "The Bullet"; Postmaster General Winton Blount was "The Postman"; and Martha Mitchell was known as "The Account," an advertising term for a client. Nixon himself was above nicknames; in memos and meetings he was referred to as "RN," or "the President," or occasionally by his military code name...
...Melvin R. Laird decline to answer questions about the invasion of Laos in February...
...Melvin Maddocks...
...MELVIN W. MANSUR
...weeks ago, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger sent an urgent query to former Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird, now a Reader's Digest executive in Washington. What was Ford's private assessment of Kissinger? The answer came back: excellent. In almost every important negotiation Kissinger is asked if Nixon will survive, and if not, what will happen to Kissinger in particular and foreign policy in general...