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		Laird was known for his work on both domestic and defense issues, including his service on the Defense subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee.
		Laird was reportedly the elder statesman chosen by the Republicans to convince Vice President Spiro Agnew to resign his position after Agnew's personal corruption became a public scandal.
		Laird wished to return to the political arena, and was said to be planning a run for president in 1976.
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	Melvin R. Laird - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Melvin Robert Laird (born September 1, 1922) was a Republican congressman from Wisconsin who served as Richard Nixon's Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973.
		Laird was known for his work on both domestic and defense issues, including his service on the Defense subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee.
		Laird noted this in his FY 1971 report, "Except for the major policy decisions, I am striving to decentralize decisionmaking as much as possible.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Melvin_Laird (1973 words)

	Melvin R. Laird - SourceWatch
		Melvin R. Laird, a Republican Representative from Wisconsin, served as in the Richard M. Nixon administration as the 10th Secretary of Defense (January 29, 1969-January 29, 1973).
		Laird "developed and strongly supported 'Vietnamization,' a program intended to expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops.
		Laird publicized Vietnamization widely; in his final report as secretary of defense in early 1973, he stated: 'Vietnamization.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Melvin_R._Laird (590 words)

	SecDef Histories - Melvin Laird
		Laird was born in Omaha, Nebraska, on 1 September 1922.
		In Laird's years, total obligational authority by fiscal year was as follows: 1969, $77.7 billion; 1970, $75.5 billion; 1971, $72.8 billion; 1972, $76.4 billion; and 1973, $78.9 billion.
		One of Laird's most active initiatives was his persistent effort to secure the release of the American captives held by the enemy in Vietnam.
	www.defenselink.mil /specials/secdef_histories/bios/laird.htm (1826 words)

	Melvin R. Laird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Melvin Robert Laird (born September 1 1922) is a Republican congressman from Wisconsin who served as Richard Nixon 's Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973.
		Laird did not depart abruptly from the Clifford management system but rather instituted gradual He pursued what he called "participatory management an approach calculated to gain the cooperation the military leadership in reducing the Defense and the size of the military establishment.
		Laird noted this in his FY 1971 report "Except for the major policy I am striving to decentralize decisionmaking as as possible.
	www.freeglossary.com /Melvin_R._Laird (1702 words)

	Nixon's Vietnam-era defense chief calls for Iraq exit plan - The Boston Globe
		Nixon recruited Laird from Congress to help find a way to end the war, which had dragged on for nearly a decade and claimed tens of thousands of US casualties.
		Laird writes that the Vietnam analogy is being used to define Iraq as an unwinnable war but that the United States could have met its goals in Southeast Asia -- and can meet them in Iraq -- with the right plan.
		Laird, who says he kept silent until now ''because I never believed the old guard should meddle in the business of new administrations," believes America has no choice but to succeed in Iraq.
	www.boston.com /news/world/middleeast/articles/2005/10/19/nixons_vietnam_era_defense_chief_calls_for_iraq_exit_plan (757 words)

	Encyclopedia: Melvin Laird
		In 1942 he graduated from Carleton College in Minnesota, then entered the United States Navy as an enlisted man. He received an ensign's commission in April 1944 and served on a destroyer in the Pacific.
		Laird then entered the Wisconsin State Senate at age 23, succeeding his recently deceased father.
		In spite of the Vietnam quagmire and the unfolding Watergate affair, which threatened to discredit the entire Nixon administration, Laird retired with his reputation intact.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Melvin-Laird (1914 words)

	Melvin R. Laird -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Melvin Laird urged Nixon to follow through on a policy of U.S. troop withdrawal from (A communist state in Indochina on the South China Sea; achieved independence from France in 1945) Vietnam.
		He coined the phrase "Vietnamization," meaning that more of the burden of fighting the war should fall to the (A former country in southeastern Asia that existed from 1954 (after the defeat of the French at Dien Bien Phu) until 1975 when it was defeated and annexed by North Vietnam) South Vietnamese forces.
		Laird was known for his work on both domestic and defense issues, including his service on the Defense subcommittee of the (Click link for more info and facts about House Appropriations Committee) House Appropriations Committee.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/m/me/melvin_r._laird.htm (1746 words)

	Melvin R. Laird Summary
		Laird left the Defense Department at the end of Nixon's first term, but he returned to Washington in June 1973 to become counsellor to President Nixon for domestic affairs in the wake of the widening Watergate scandal.
		Melvin Robert (Bam) Laird was born September 1, 1922 and nicknamed "Bambino" (shortened to "Bam" and pronounced like the word 'bomb') by his mother.
		Laird was a Republican congressman who served as Richard Nixon's Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973 but was always affectionately known to his friends and family as 'Bam' Laird.
	www.bookrags.com /Melvin_R._Laird (2965 words)

	Melvin Robert Laird - Encyclopedia.com
		Laird, Melvin Robert 1922-, American politician, U.S. secretary of defense (1969-73), b.
		Laird became secretary of defense in President Nixon's cabinet and presided over the shift from a conscripted to an all-volunteer army.
		Laird is the author of A House Divided (1962) and editor of Republican Papers (1968).
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-Laird-Me.html (352 words)

	Melvin Laird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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		Laird, Gordon Writing for Mother Jones, the Far Eastern Economic Review and Outside, Gordon Laird has covered stories on environment, politics and culture from a wide range of locales, including the high Arctic, Tibet, Mongolia and China.
	www.serebella.com /encyclopedia/article-Melvin_Laird.html (197 words)

	Encyclopedia: Melvin R. Laird
		Robert McNamara in 1964 Robert Strange McNamara (born June 9, 1916), American was a businessman, politician, and United States Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968.
		As the Washington Post reported after his selection as secretary of defense, "Around the military-industrial complex these days they're singing 'Praise the Laird and pass the transformation.'" 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar).
		June 30 is the 181st day of the year (182nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 184 days remaining, and the last day of June.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Melvin-R.-Laird (4368 words)

	BTC News » In which Melvin Laird doesn’t even try to make sense
		The last time former Nixon defense secretary Melvin Laird popped up in the pages of the Washington Post, it was to chide the retired generals who were unloading on Donald Rumsfeld.
		Laird is either compulsively dishonest in his characterization of the current dynamic or delusional about it, or both.
		Laird indulges in the usual practice of attributing opposition to the president’s new groove exclusively to Democrats, preferring not to note that most voters aren’t wild about it and neither are many, if not most, congressional Republicans.
	www.btcnews.com /btcnews/1569 (1688 words)

	JS Online: Best friends on the path to power (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		This was Melvin Laird, one of the most influential figures to come out of Wisconsin in the 20th century, recalling the events in 1973 that made Ford the first appointed vice president in U.S. history and, in 1974, the 38th president of the United States.
		In 1965, Laird said, he led the campaign that brought Ford victory in a contested race to be the Republican leader in the House, the position that moved Ford into national prominence.
		Laird, who had by then taken a position with Reader's Digest, never took a formal position in the Ford White House, but he said he was part of a "kitchen cabinet" of a few intimates who met with Ford weekly.
	www.jsonline.com /story/index.aspx?id=546824 (1042 words)

	Salvatore ORLANDO, Plaintiff-Appellant, v
		Melvin LAIRD, individually and as Secretary of Defense of the United States; and Stanley R. Resor, individually and as Secretary of the Army of the United States, Defendants-Appellees.
		Melvin LAIRD, individually, and as Secretary of Defense of the United States, Stanley R. Resor, individually, and as Secretary of the Army of the United States, and Col. T.
		In light of the adoption by Congress of the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, and the clear evidence of continuing and distinctly expressed participation by the legislative branch in the prosecution of the war, I agree that the judgments below must be affirmed.
	www.law.berkeley.edu /faculty/yooj/courses/forrel/reserve/Orlando.htm (1485 words)

	BTC News » Nixon defense chief Melvin Laird comes to Rumsfeld’s aid
		It was Laird who ordered the secret bombings of Cambodia and Laos, and who later told Dan Rather in a CBS news appearance that Nixon hadn’t lied when he claimed to have respected those countries’ neutrality because Nixon had only meant that ground troops hadn’t crossed their borders.
		Laird mentions Vietnam once, when he says, “The ghost of Vietnam may be whispering to these retired generals, who understandably want to guarantee that military wisdom is never again trampled by political expediency.” But, not surprisingly, it isn’t Vietnam to which Laird turns as an example of vindication by hindsight.
		Laird’s support probably won’t have much of an impact on Rumsfeld’s situation; a great many Americans won’t know who he is or what he did, and those who do remember him, and Vietnam, long ago chose their sides.
	www.btcnews.com /btcnews/1284 (2020 words)

	Melvin Laird
		Melvin Laird was Nixon's Defense Secretary, and prior to that he had been a Republican Congressman.
		He favored American troop withdrawal from Vietnam, and popularized the concept of "Vietnamization" as the shift of the burden of the fighting from the U.S. forces to the South Vietnamese Army.
		Despite being the Defense Secretary, Laird was routinely bypassed in the decision-making process by Kissinger's team.
	www.sagehistory.net /vietnam/DanielFiles/Laird.html (101 words)

	LAIRD, Melvin Robert (1922-) Guide to Research Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Documentation of Melvin Laird’s leadership on defense issues while a congressman continues in a limited quantity of papers created as secretary of defense.
		The papers of Melvin Robert Laird are currently unprocessed and closed for research.
		The oral history interviews with Melvin Robert Laird were conducted by William Syers and Robert Peabody.
	bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=L000024 (291 words)

	AllRefer.com - Melvin Robert Laird (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		As a member (1953–69) of the U.S. House of Representatives, he served on the appropriations committee where he actively supported a large military budget and a strong nuclear defense posture as well as increased funds for health and education.
		Laird became secretary of defense in President Nixon's cabinet and presided over the shift from a conscripted to an all-volunteer army.
		Laird is the author of A House Divided (1962) and editor of Republican Papers (1968).
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/L/Laird-Me.html (266 words)

	Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters
		At first glance, the Honorable Melvin R. Laird is something of an oxymoron: a Secretary of Defense (during the Nixon Administration, 1968–1973) who is best known for pulling U.S. troops out of Vietnam and for eliminating the draft.
		Before moving on to the White House, Laird spent nine terms representing Wisconsin in the U.S. Congress, where he successfully sponsored 12 regional cancer centers, the Centers for Disease Control, and, in Madison, the McArdle Laboratory for Cancer Research and the UW Cancer Center, among other projects.
		Laird is the recipient of more than 300 awards and honorary degrees, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
	www.wisconsinacademy.org /news/releases/050703.html (1382 words)

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		Laird won by a 77-62 margin in the Conference meeting on January 4.
		Others concern Melvin Laird's election as Chairman of the Republican Conference over Peter Frelinghuysen, Les Arends' election as Minority Whip over Frelinghuysen, and the selection of John Rhodes and Charles Goodell as chairmen of the Republican Policy Committee and the Republican Planning and Research Committee respectively.
		Melvin Laird, Peter Frelinghuysen, Les Arends, Charles Halleck SUBJECT DESCRIPTOR.........
	www.ibiblio.org /lia/president/FordLibrary/presnet/peabody_rl_c284 (2605 words)

	Anecdote - Melvin Robert Laird - Melvin Laird: Stogie Blooper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In order to avoid embarrassing the Curia with unnecessary reminders of the conflict, however, it was suggested that the cigar-chomping secretary of defense Melvin Laird (the brains behind the invasion of Cambodia and the carpet bombing of North Vietnam) should not accompany the rest of the party to the papal audience.
		Laird's predicament was partly concealed when he began to frantically slap at his pocket - prompting many other guests to join in what they mistook to be enthusiastic applause for the pope!
		Laird, Melvin Robert (1922-) American U.S. Senator (R-Wisconsin, 1946—52), U.S. Congressman (R-Wisconsin, 1953—69), secretary of defense (1969—73) [noted for his advocacy of nuclear deterrence, the invasion of Cambodia (1970) and the bombing of North Vietnam (to force a peace settlement); and for such books as A House Divided (1962) and Republican Papers (1968)]
	www.anecdotage.com /index.php?aid=13922 (330 words)

	Melvin R. Laird (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Laird is a member of the Director's Advisory Council of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company.
		Laird has been the recipient of over 300 awards and honorary degrees.
		Laird received a BA from Carleton College and is author of 'A House Divided: America's Strategy Gap', 1962.
	www.lairdcenter.org /about_laird/Biography.asp (362 words)

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