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A Republican congressman from Wisconsin who served as [[Richard Nixon]]'s secretary of defense from [[1969]] to [[1972]]. Laird urged Nixon to follow through on a policy of US troop withdrawal from [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]]. He coined the phrase "Vietnamization," meaning that more of the burden of fighting the war should fall to the [[South Vietnam]]ese forces. |
A Republican congressman from Wisconsin who served as [[Richard Nixon]]'s [[United States Secretary of Defense|secretary of defense]] from [[1969]] to [[1972]]. Laird urged Nixon to follow through on a policy of US troop withdrawal from [[Vietnam War|Vietnam]]. He coined the phrase "Vietnamization," meaning that more of the burden of fighting the war should fall to the [[South Vietnam]]ese forces. |
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A Republican congressman from Wisconsin who served as Richard Nixon's secretary of defense from 1969 to 1972. Laird urged Nixon to follow through on a policy of US troop withdrawal from Vietnam. He coined the phrase "Vietnamization," meaning that more of the burden of fighting the war should fall to the South Vietnamese forces.