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Title:
Melvin R. Laird Papers, 1904-1979 (bulk 1946-1973)
Creator: Laird, Melvin R. Quantity: 78.0 cubic feet (67 records center cartons, 54 archives boxes, 1 card box, 2 flat boxes), 2 reels of microfilm (35 mm), 31 tape recordings, 7 disc recordings, 552 photographs, and 217 film reels; plus additions of 84 reels of microfilm (16 mm), 12 reels of microfilm (35 mm), and 1.9 cubic feet
Call Number: Stevens Point Mss BO; Stevens Point Micro 31; Micro 666; Audio 1359A; PH Stevens Point BO; PH 6782 (5); M2004-042; M2006-071; M2009-092
Abstract: Papers, mainly 1946-1973, of Melvin Laird, former Wisconsin state legislator (1947-1953), Seventh District congressman (1953-1969), and U.S. Secretary of Defense (1969-1973) documenting his political career. Also present are brief papers of Melvin R. Laird Sr. (1877-1946), also a Wisconsin legislator, and grandfather William D. Connor (died 1944), a former lieutenant governor and state Republican Party leader. Photographs received with the collection consist primarily of publicity shots of Laird, his family, office visitors, and state and national leaders (including Dwight D. Eisenhower and Richard M. Nixon), as well as visual documentation of his interest in military and health care issues.
Biography/History
• ...ons Committee Laird emerged as one of the foremost Republican critics of President Lyndon Johnson's Vietnam War policy and a chief advocate of a tougher anti-Communist policy and increased spending fo ...
Contents List
Part 1 (Stevens Point Mss BO, Stevens Point Micro 31, Micro 666, Audio 1359A, PH Stevens Point BO, PH 6782 (5)): Original Collection, 1904-1979
subfonds
• ...iculture, especially dairy legislation, and repeal of the Taft-Hartley Law. After the mid-1960s the Vietnam War is a prominent topic in the Foreign Affairs Committee files. Th ... Congressional Papers
series Speeches and writings
subseries • ... Laird speaks with Clement Zablocki about the Vietnam War. Zablocki states the importance of bipartisan support for American policies. ... • ... Ford, House Minority Leader, discuss Republican objections to the Administration's handling of the Vietnam War. Ford encourages viewers to read the “Republican White Paper” by House Republicans on th ... • ...th persons from the district. He additionally states his positions regarding federal funding of the Vietnam War, the war on poverty, and Great Society programs. ... • ... Laird asks whether critical discussions about the Vietnam War has been abandoned. He decries the vituperative attack on Minority Leader Gerald Ford. ... • ...ense Appropriations Bill; the largest ever passed, as well as the Administration's financing of the Vietnam War. ... • ... Regarding misrepresentation of Vietnam War by editorial writers ... |