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Last week one more Nixonian "never" became inoperative. Domestic Affairs Chief Melvin Laird suddenly announced that the President was "seriously considering" a variety of tax measures for some time in the future, including a "refundable" increase in personal and corporate income taxes...
Recently, however, Fischer has begun to detect signs of improvement. "Before Watergate, people in the White House frequently refused to make appointments and often neglected to return phone calls." Today, Fischer happily finds that such Nixon advisers as Alexander Haig, Melvin Laird and Bryce Harlow "are aware of the dangers of White House isolation in a way that Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman never understood...
...Welfare, and in 1970 Richardson was picked to supply it as Secretary. Though critics contended that he weakened the drive for school desegregation by failing to support busing with sufficient enthusiasm, Richardson was notably successful at HEW. After last year's election he was picked to succeed Melvin R. Laird as Defense Secretary but held that job only three months before Nixon chose him in May to repair the Watergate damage as Attorney General...
While bombs fell in the wrong places, the dubious beginnings of U.S. military activities in Cambodia were being laid bare in Washington. Former Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird has insisted for three weeks that he never ordered falsification of any documents to hide U.S. air and ground activities in Cambodia and Laos in 1969 and 1970. Last week, however, that flat denial apparently became inoperative. The Senate Armed Services Committee, which has been investigating what is being called "the Cambodian cover-up," released a top-secret 1969 memorandum, which showed that Laird had approved falsified reporting to hide bombing raids...
...DILLINGER, the cop thirsting for revenge is F.B.I. man Melvin Purvis (Ben Johnson). He is by far the most interesting character in the movie. Purvis is obsessed with killing all of the biggest bank robbers who are responsible for killing a G-man friend of his in a jail break. This G-man had once given Purvis a box of expensive Havana cigars. Purvis phallically puffs on one of the Havanas at the shoot-out killings of each of his sworn enemies. In Sergant Friday-monotone, he relates in voice-over the location and date of each shooting. He personally...