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...good cheer than his predecessor, the dour H.R. Haldeman. Says one Nixon aide: "Haldeman issued orders. You work with Haig as an equal." A former assistant to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in the Johnson Administration and to Henry Kissinger in the Nixon Administration, Haig leapfrogged from colonel to four-star Army Vice Chief of Staff in three years. He had been expected to head the reconstruction of the post-Viet Nam Army...
...Japanese when he led the 1st Marine Division onto Guadalcanal in August 1942. For three months his outnumbered men held their ground through bitter jungle fighting before reinforcements arrived, and for his leadership Vandegrift was awarded the Navy Cross and the Congressional Medal of Honor. The first active four-star general in Marine history, he served four years as Marine Corps Commandant before retiring...
Haig is reputed to have no enemies, though he is envied by the 230 officers he leaped over in going from two-star to four-star rank. Appointed the Army's Vice Chief of Staff only last January, Haig will not have to leave the service to take his temporary White House assignment. He will have little time for his wife, a general's daughter, and their three children. And he won't be spending much time with the troops, either...
...junta will be picked. The odds-on favorite right now seems to be General Ernesto Geisel, 64, who is head of the government-owned petroleum monopoly, Petrobrás. Geisel has one major advantage over other contenders: his brother Orlando is Minister of the Army and also a four-star general, which means they have eight stars between them. Geisel's business experience presumably would serve him well in guiding national economic policy...
...prime minister. A four-star ARVN general who is currently on extended leave from his army duties to satisfy the constitutional requirement that a civilian hold the largely powerless political post, Khiem commands considerable loyalty in the armed forces. Khiem also has been able to maintain his independence from Thieu and is consequently respected outside army circles...