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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: 30. Chapters: People from Marshfield, Wisconsin, People from Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin, Melvin R. Laird, John Stauber, Lucian Pulvermacher, Dick Trickle, Grim Natwick, Elizabeth Zimmermann, Ed Lewis, Adolph Walter Rich, Bonnie Bartlett, Ben Lawton, Rich Seubert, Laurie Olin, Alden Carter, James Daly, Edgar Manske, William H. Upham, Andrew Rock, Fred Beell, Mark Tauscher, Bryan Reffner, Chief Oshkosh, Adam Stenavich, Edith Nash, Gary Varsho, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Bob Galvin, MaryAnn Lippert, John Offerdahl, Marlin Schneider, Charles Werner, Red Blanchard, Meg Swansen, Tom Domres, Philleo Nash, Frederick C. Peerenboom, Mark E. Anderson, Amy Sue Vruwink, Don Rehfeldt, Scott Scharff, George Hiles, Bruno Block, Charles Donnelly, Joseph Wood, Felix Ley, John Oestreicher, Stephen E. Johnson, Karl Schuelke, Tom Metcalf, Lee Weigel. 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 D. Connor, the Lieutenant Governor of Wisconsin from 1907 to 1909. His niece is Jessica Laird Doyle, wife of former Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle. He graduated from Carleton College in Minnesota in May 1944, having enlisted in the United States Navy a year earlier. Following his c...
