Laird put out one album as a leader, Soft Focus.

The British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston and Foreign Secretary Lord John Russell had allowed the Alabama to put to sea from the shipyards of John Laird Sons and Company in Birkenhead, despite the explicit objections of the American Legation in London and charges from the American Minister to Britain Charles Francis Adams that the ship was bound for the Confederacy.

Melvin Laird, the Secretary of Defense, agreed with the point, but not with the language: " what we need is a term like ' Vietnamizing ' to put the emphasis on the right issues.

The town of Leaside was planned by Todd for the company, which put its name to many of the local streets ; Laird Drive, Hanna Road and Wicksteed Avenue all bear the name of Canadian Northern Railway company executives.

He opposed the Nixon administration's deployment of the anti-ballistic missile, a position which put him at odds with then Defense Secretary Melvin R. Laird. Pete Williams, a Wyoming native and a former Hansen Senate staffer recalled Hansen's " warm Western smile and utter lack of pretense.

The Clan's authority resided intact at Mangerton in Liddesdale, a succession of Armstrongs retaining the title of the ' Laird of Mangerton ', until 1610 when Johnny Armstrong was ' put to the horn ' and hanged as a rebel.

Though signifying the same as Lord, the two terms are not interchangeable and Laird is not a title of nobility.

The word Laird, known to have been used as far back as the 15th century and further, is a shortened form of ' laverd ', which is an old Scottish word that shares a similar root to an Anglo-Saxon term meaning Lord and the Middle English word ' lard ' also meaning Lord ; however the terms Lord and Lady have since become words chiefly associated with peerage dignities in Scotland, so the term ' Laird ' has come to have a separate meaning.

* 1969 – Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to " Vietnamize " the war effort.

' Laird ' is a hereditary title for the owner of a landed estate in the United Kingdom and is a title of gentry.

Although, as time was to demonstrate, South Vietnam was not really capable of defending its independence, Laird retired from office satisfied that he had accomplished his major objective, the disengagement of United States combat forces from Vietnam.

Although not intimately involved in the development of strategic nuclear policy as McNamara had been, Laird subscribed to the Nixon administration's program of " Strategic Sufficiency "-that the United States should have the capability to deter nuclear attacks against its home territory and that of its allies by convincing a potential aggressor that he would suffer an unacceptable level of retaliatory damage ; it should also have enough nuclear forces to eliminate possible coercion of its allies.

In his final report in January 1973 Laird listed what he considered to be the major accomplishments of his tenure: Vietnamization ; achieving the goal of strategic sufficiency ; effective burden-sharing between the United States and its friends and allies ; adequate security assistance ; maintenance of U. S. technological superiority through development of systems such as the B-1, Trident, and cruise missiles ; improved procurement ; " People Programs " such as ending the draft and creating the AVF ; improved National Guard and Reserve forces ; enhanced operational readiness ; and participatory management.

The phrase was also used to describe California in the 1860s, and by Clement Laird Vallandigham to describe the land of the Mississippi plains None of these remained a widely used to describe a region, though it is still occasionally used to describe the United States overall.

George Laird Shoup ( June 15, 1836December 21, 1904 ) was the first Governor of Idaho, serving a short time after statehood in 1890 before becoming one of the state's first United States Senators.

Rachel Marilyn Laird Lloyd ( born January 3, 1929 ) is a Tennessee businesswoman and 10-term member of the United States House of Representatives ( 1975 – 95 ).

Laird, a United Church of Canada minister.

He sat in the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1846 – 55 as the Conservative MP for Renfrewshire and was Laird of Caldwell in Ayrshire.

Coming from England, he joined College Prospects of America, a service also employed by golfer Martin Laird, which created a résumé for him and sent it to all the major colleges and universities in the United States.

In conjunction with his NWEP work, Laird was a leader of the campaign to stop TransLink's United Boulevard Extension project.

Laird told the Allentown Morning Call in 1986 that he became close friends with former Soviet Ambassador to the United Nations Oleg Troyanovsky, son of Aleksandr A. Troyanovsky, the first Soviet ambassador to the United States from 1934 to 1938, while at Swarthmore.

The firm was originally backed by the Laird Norton Company, a large family enterprise operating in the Western United States.

Laird v. Tatum, 408 U. S. 1 ( 1972 ) was a case in which the United States Supreme Court dismissed for lack of ripeness a claim in which the plaintiff accused the U. S. Army of alleged unlawful " surveillance of lawful citizen political activity.

As a Member of Parliament at the time, Laird was certainly aware of the intricacies of international relations between United Kingdom, the Northern and the Southern states during the American Civil War and his motivations for continuing work on this project are unknown.

* William R. Laird, III-United States Senator from West Virginia

In October 1863 John Laird and his shipbuilding company were caught making two naval ram vessels for the Confederate States Navy: El Toussoun and El Monastir.

" Laird supported the strategic arms talks leading to the SALT I agreements with the Soviet Union in 1972: a five-year moratorium against expansion of strategic nuclear delivery systems, and an antiballistic missile treaty limiting each side to two sites ( later cut to one ) for deployed ABM systems.

Laird noted this in his FY 1971 report, " Except for the major policy decisions, I am striving to decentralize decisionmaking as much as possible ...

Laird recalled, " I heard her sing an odd phrase or two and thought, ' God that's a big voice out of that little girl ,'" The next summer, she played Dainty June in summer stock, and in 1962 she recorded her first single.

A Laird is a member of the gentry ; historically Lairds rank below a Baron and above an Esquire in the non-peerage table of precedence in the Statutes of 1592 and the Baronetcy Warrants of King Charles I.

As a congressman Laird had supported a strong defense posture and had sometimes been critical of Secretary McNamara.

* Roy D. Laird, " Collective Farming in Russia: A Political Study of the Soviet Kolkhozy ", University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS ( 1958 ), 176pp.

At Swarthmore in the 1930s, Troyanovsky allegedly recruited his American classmate Stephen Laird as a Soviet spy.

Laird was instrumental in forming the administration's policy of withdrawing U. S. soldiers from the Vietnam War ; he invented the expression " Vietnamization ," referring to the process of transferring more responsibility for combat to the South Vietnamese forces.

Laird paid special attention to two important interdepartmental bodies: the Washington Special Action Group ( WSAG ), composed of senior Defense, State, and CIA officials, which gathered information necessary for presidential decisions on the crisis use of U. S. military forces ; and the Defense Program Review Committee ( DPRC ), which brought together representatives from many agencies, including DoD, State, the Council of Economic Advisers, and the Office of Management and Budget, to analyze defense budget issues as a basis for advising the president, placing, as Laird commented, " national security needs in proper relationship to non-defense requirements.

Although not receptive to demands for immediate withdrawal, Laird acknowledged the necessity to disengage U. S. combat forces gradually.

On January 27, 1973, Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird announced the creation of an all-volunteer armed forces, negating the need for the military draft.

In 1715 the Laird of Grant withdrew his forces which led to the defeat of government forces at the Skirmish of Alness.

Upon introducing himself as the Laird of Glenbogle, Dr. Cook announced to his Land Economy class on Bubble Theory: " We have amongst us a social, political, and economic dinosaur.

Peel Holdings, owners of the Mersey Docks and Harbour Company and 50 % owners of Northwestern Shiprepairers & Shipbuilders, purchased the Cammell Laird shipyard site and surrounding land in January 2007, to facilitate the proposed Wirral Waters development, although Northwestern Shiprepairers & Shipbuilders continue to maintain a long-term lease on the shipyard facilities, which will form an integral part of the regeneration scheme.

1929 saw the merger of the acquired railway business with those of Cammell Laird to form Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon ( MCCW ); Metro Cammell.

1929 saw the merger of the acquired railway business with those of Cammell Laird to form Metropolitan Cammell Carriage and Wagon ( MCCW ); Metro Cammell.

The naval historian Sir William Laird Clowes, who knew him well, wrote that '... he was a natural diplomatist, and an unrivalled tactician ; and, to a singular independence and uprightness of character, he added a mastery of technical detail, and a familiarity with contemporary thought and progress that were unusual in those days among officers of his standing '.