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Under which president did Melvin Laird serve as Secretary of Defense?

  • John F. Kennedy

  • Lyndon B. Johnson

  • Gerald Ford

  • Richard Nixon

Answer

Richard Nixon was the president under whom Melvin Laird served as Secretary of Defense. Laird's tenure as Secretary spanned from 1969 to 1973, a period marked by significant events and policy shifts in the United States' defense and foreign policy during the Vietnam War era.
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