Wednesday, November 16, 2016
Melvin Laird, R. I. P.
Ex-Pentagon chief Melvin Laird dies, architect of ‘Vietnamization’ policy: Melvin Laird, who as defense secretary under President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973 helped extricate U.S. forces from the morass of the Vietnam War in a policy he dubbed “Vietnamization,” has died at age 94.
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I had no idea he was still alive.
I suppose that's one way to describe the policy. Not an accurate way, but it is one way to describe it.
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