Word: laird
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Together with this chronic anger, the mistrustful Nixon had a passion for secrecy. He repeatedly launched military operations without telling his own Defense Secretary, Melvin Laird, and major diplomatic initiatives without telling his Secretary of State, William Rogers. All major actions went through his White House staff members, particularly National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger and Nixon's two chief domestic aides, Bob Haldeman and John Ehrlichman...
...that kind of situation, the mediator needsto be agreed upon," says Lance Laird, North Houserace relations tutor...
...sure that putting all theresponsibility on student mediators is the bestthing," Laird says. "I think certainly that tutorsand older folks would have a little morecredibility...
...exploring teaching in other disciplines, you get a greater understanding of it within your own discipline," said Nan M. Laird, Walcott professor of biostatistics in the Faculty of Public Health...
Kerry told Henry Kissinger, the former Secretary of State who negotiated the peace agreement with Hanoi, that "the question is whether we got the full accounting, and if we didn't, why." Kissinger was outraged. If Laird and Schlesinger had held such views in 1973, he said, they had never told him. It was true that more prisoners were expected than were returned, Kissinger told the committee, and both he and Richard Nixon had said so. But there had been no certainty they were alive, for "no confirmed report of living American prisoners ever crossed my desk." To suggest that...