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An undistinguished cadet at West Point, Haig graduated in the middle of his class (1947), learned the art of briefing while on General Douglas MacArthur's staff during the Korean War. That job and then a case of hepatitis kept him from the fighting. He was late getting to...
Haig never aspired to be an innovator in diplomatic affairs, but shone as the organizer and expediter, with a loudly expressed detestation of "gimmickry." As a substitute for Kissinger in briefing the President, Haig came to know Nixon well. During the last dry run for Nixon's journey to...
Certainly the credibility of Press Secretary Ziegler has been shattered, although it was compromised long ago. Last week Clark Mollenhoff, the Des Moines Register's Washington bureau chief (and a former Nixon adviser), dramatized the growing feeling of many newsmen about Ziegler. At a White House press briefing, Mollenhoff contended...
Some of the near misses were almost equally frightening. One captain on an intercontinental flight to Darwin, Australia, reported that after 14 hours of duty and 25 hours without sleep, "both my first officers fell asleep more than once ... and, in fact, I had to waken one of them to...
So is there a guideline? Well, sort of. In a hastily arranged "clarification" briefing, a COLC official insisted that labor leaders have promised to keep 1973 pay boosts in line with those negotiated last year, which averaged 6.3%. But Dunlop freely concedes that individual contracts will vary widely. Meaning: the...