Word: melvin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...MELVIN P. KEISTER
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...
Screenplay by MELVIN FRANK and JACK ROSE
Mating seems to offer more time for comedy than resolution, and A Touch of Class ends predictably, with a dash of prefabricated melancholy. Melvin Frank's direction, like the script he wrote with Jack Rose, was apparently devised to give his actors maximum room to romp. A wise choice, since Jackson and Segal are the ones with most of the real style and-yes-class...
...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...