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Even tougher action is being urged by former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, a close personal friend of the President's. Among other things, Laird wants oil imports chopped by 50% and a strict gasoline-rationing program much like the one in force during World War II (see box page 14). Though Energy Czar Rogers Morton, Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns and some leading Democrats, including Senator Henry Jackson, have been ardent supporters of stringent conservation measures, none of them have gone so far as to call for all-out rationing...
...partly to keep from being played for a sucker. Macdonald might even be called an American Bernard Shaw, if Shaw had written only prefaces or if Macdonald had written plays. Besides, that is to say, these marvelous little one-act monologues, featuring the persona he made of himself. ·Melvin Maddocks...
...fogy!" from all the Angry Young Men. "The worst doesn't always happen," he writes. Today, in a world that will settle for less, the words mean more-even ring with a certain Colonel Blimp gallantry. How Snow readers have changed! How Snow has stayed the same! ·Melvin Maddocks...
Further, the defense should have been permitted to call such higher-ups as then Defense Secretary Melvin Laird to bolster the argument that undue command influence had affected the trial. And the defense should have been given access to a confidential House Armed Services Committee report on My Lai. Judge Elliott cited Watergate and ruled that "the Supreme Court in deciding the Nixon [tapes] case also decided the Calley case...
September 15: Ford plays golf with Melvin Laird, former Republican congressman Jack Westland, and his friend Darius "Deke" Keatch, president of Trucker Oil Trade, Inc. He attends church. Later he greets the Mormon Tabernacle Choir at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts...