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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 43. Chapters: People from Marshfield, Wisconsin, People from Wausau, Wisconsin, Melvin R. Laird, John Stauber, Bob Raczek, Dave Obey, Scott Wimmer, Gloria Coates, Will Clark, Brad Soderberg, Craig Thompson, Jim Otto, Kole Heckendorf, Elizabeth Zimmermann, Elroy Hirsch, Dave Marcis, Ben Lawton, Rich Seubert, Laurie Olin, Claude Taugher, Marissa Mayer, Alden Carter, Barbara Kooyman, Chris Wimmer, William H. Upham, John McCutcheon, Andrew Rock, Nicole Briscoe, Fred Beell, Mark Tauscher, Win Brockmeyer, Adam Stenavich, Gerald Morris, Red Smith, Gary Varsho, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Kevin Cywinski, Woodrow Swancutt, Bob Galvin, Russ Decker, Herman Marth, MaryAnn Lippert, Charles Werner, Alexander Stewart, Ray Szmanda, Meg Swansen, Charles Zarnke, Tom Domres, Warren Bernhardt, Ted Fritsch, Jerry Petrowski, Tyler Dennett, Mike Manley, Jim Pekol, Theophilus Riesinger, J. Leroy Johnson, Rudy Bell, Lief Larson, Christian J. Vogt, Galen Laack, Paul Thomas Ott, John Oestreicher, Jerry Dahlke, John Azor Kellogg, Robert W. Dean, Karl Schuelke, Sebastian Kronenwetter, Otto Mueller, Jim DeLisle, Lee Weigel, Greg Liter. Excerpt: Melvin Robert (Bom) Laird (born September 1, 1922) is an American politician and writer. Laird was a Republican congressman who also served as Richard Nixon's Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1973. Laird urged Nixon to maintain a policy of withdrawing US soldiers from Vietnam. He invented the expression "Vietnamization," referring to the process of transferring more responsibility for combat to the South Vietnamese forces. He was born in Omaha, Nebraska, grew up and attended high school in Marshfield, Wisconsin, although he attended Lake Forest Academy in Lake Forest, Illinois his junior year. He was nicknamed "Bambino" (shortened to "Bom" and pronounced like the word 'bomb') by his mother. Laird was the grandson of William ...
