With Honor: Melvin Laird in War, Peace, and Politics

by Dale Van Atta (Author), Dale Van Atta (Author), Gerald R. Ford (Foreword)

• Used

  Hardcover
  2008

  $21.97

  In 1968, at the peak of the Vietnam War, Congressman Melvin Laird agreed to serve as Richard Nixon's secretary of defense. Lampooned as a missile head, but decisive in crafting an exit strategy, he pursued his program of Vietnamization. This biography reveals his role in managing the crisis of national identity sparked by the Vietnam War.

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $34.88

  In 1968, at the peak of the Vietnam War, Congressman Melvin Laird agreed to serve as Richard Nixon's secretary of defense. Lampooned as a missile head, but decisive in crafting an exit strategy, he pursued his program of Vietnamization. This biography reveals his role in managing the crisis of national identity sparked by the Vietnam War.