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Fuller Name
- Melvin Robert
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Birth Date
- 1922-09-01
Death Date
- 2016-11-16
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1974
- Organization: Reader's Digest Association
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1969-01-21
- Affiliation End: 1973-01-29
- Source: Wikipedia, viewed Nov. 17, 2016
- Organization: United States. Department of Defense
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1953-01-03
- Affiliation End: 1969-01-21
- Source: Biographical directory of the United States Congress WWW site, viewed Nov. 17, 2016
- Organization: United States. Congress. House
Has Affiliation
- Affiliation Start: 1946
- Affiliation End: 1952
- Organization: Wisconsin. Legislature. Senate
Has Affiliation
- Source: New York times WWW site, viewed Nov. 17, 2016
- Organization: Republican Party (U.S. : 1854- )
Birth Place
- Omaha (Neb.)
Associated Language
- English
Occupation
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Sources
- found: His A house divided, 1962.
- found: Laird Center Internet website, July 10, 2007bio. (Melvin R. Laird; b. Sept. 1, 1922, [Omaha, Neb.]; Senior Counselor, National and International Affairs, Reader's Digest Association (1974-present); Counsellor to the President (1973-74); Secretary of Defense (1969-73); U.S. Representative (1953-68); Wisconsin State Senate (1946-1952); US Navy (1942-1946))
- found: New York times WWW site, viewed Nov. 17, 2016(in obituary published Nov. 16: Melvin R. Laird; b. Melvin Robert Laird Jr., Sept. 1, 1922, Omaha; within a year, the family moved to Marshfield, Wis.; d. Wednesday [Nov. 16, 2016], Fort Myers, Fla., aged 94; as President Richard M. Nixon's first secretary of defense, quietly challenged the administration's hawkish military policies during the war in Vietnam, prompting deep suspicion, and even spying, between the White House and the Pentagon)
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Change Notes
- 1980-04-04: new
- 2016-11-17: revised
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