<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_War" id="mwxw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secretary_of_Defense" id="mwyA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="United States Secretary of Defense">United States Secretary of Defense</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Laird" id="mwyQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Melvin Laird">Melvin Laird</a> announces that the United States will start to "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnamization" id="mwyg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Vietnamization">Vietnamize</a>" the war effort.