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Melvin Robert Laird Jr. (September 1, 1922 – November 16, 2016) was an American politician, writer and statesman. He was a U.S. congressman from Wisconsin from 1953 to 1969 before serving as Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973 under President Richard Nixon.
Nov 17, 2016 · Melvin R. Laird, who as President Richard M. Nixon ’s first secretary of defense quietly challenged the administration’s hawkish military policies during the war in Vietnam, prompting...
Melvin R. Laird. Richard Nixon Administration. January 22, 1969 – January 29, 1973. Chosen by President-elect Richard M. Nixon as secretary of defense, Melvin R. Laird was the first member of...
Nov 17, 2016 · Melvin R. Laird, who as defense secretary under President Richard Nixon oversaw the drawdown of U.S. forces in Vietnam and ended the military draft, died Wednesday at age 94.
Nov 16, 2016 · MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Melvin Laird, a former Wisconsin congressman and U.S. defense secretary during years when President Nixon struggled to find a way to withdraw troops from an unpopular war in Vietnam, died on Wednesday, his family said.
Nov 17, 2016 · Melvin Laird, the former secretary of defense who ended the unpopular military draft and initiated withdrawal of US troops from the Vietnam War, died Wednesday. Laird was 94.
Nov 16, 2016 · Melvin Robert Laird, who as President Nixon’s secretary of defense ended the draft, created the all-volunteer armed forces and ordered the Pentagon’s drawdown of military personnel from the Vietnam...
Nov 16, 2016 · Melvin R. Laird, a former congressman who served as President Richard M. Nixon’s defense secretary at the height of the Vietnam War and designed policies that eventually led to the American...
Dec 31, 2016 · When Laird took the helm of the Pentagon, the country was bogged down in the quagmire of the Vietnam War with more than 550,000 troops on the ground, a total of 1.3 million men and women...
Nov 16, 2016 · Melvin Laird, the defense secretary under Richard Nixon who oversaw the withdrawal of more than half a million U.S. troops during the Vietnam War, has died. He was 94.
