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I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History

I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History

Mirisch, Walter
Ford, President Gerald R.

Hardcover

Series: Wisconsin Film Studies

Entertainment & Performing ArtsBiographies GeneralFilmmaking

ISBN10: 0299226409
ISBN13: 9780299226404
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: Apr 1 2008
Pages: 470
Weight: 1.85
Height: 1.43 Width: 6.28 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
In 1968, at the peak of the Vietnam War, centrist Congressman Melvin Laird (R-WI) agreed to serve as Richard Nixon s secretary of defense. It was not, Laird knew, a move likely to endear him to the American public but as he later said, Nixon couldn t find anybody else who wanted the damn job. For the next four years, Laird deftly navigated the morass of the war he had inherited. Lampooned as a missile head, but decisive in crafting an exit strategy, he doggedly pursued his program of Vietnamization, initiating the withdrawal of U.S. military personnel and gradually ceding combat responsibilities to South Vietnam. In fighting to bring the troops home faster, pressing for more humane treatment of POWs, and helping to end the draft, Laird employed a powerful blend of disarming Midwestern candor and Washington savvy, as he sought a high moral road bent on Nixon s oft-stated (and politically instrumental) goal of peace with honor.

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