Word: haig
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Even after he was informed by Nixon's chief of staff, Alexander Haig, that the new taped evidence that was about to be surrendered to Judge Sirica would result in the President's impeachment, Ford told a crowd in Louisiana, "I believe the President is innocent. I don't want any impression created that I've changed my mind about the President's innocence." Later, as President, Ford would reverse his strident stand against immunity for Richard Nixon and issue a blanket pardon. In addition, he supported an administration ruling giving all Nixon tapes and documents to the former President...
Died. Roderick L. Haig-Brown, 68, Canadian naturalist and author of the 1940 classic fishing book, The Western Angler; of a heart attack; in Campbell River, B.C. Born in England, Haig-Brown traveled to North America in the 1920s in search of "broken country." He settled on Vancouver Island, serving as magistrate of a local court, writing some two dozen books and championing environmental protection long before it became a popular cause...
...bait that Richard Nixon's Chief of Staff, General Alexander Haig, offered to Jaworski to become Special Prosecutor: "Haig said, 'You're highly regarded, and it's no secret that you're high on the list for appointment to the Supreme Court.' I suppressed a smile. The remark could have been part flattery, part fact, but I suspected it was all bait...
...Haig's threat that Nixon's lawyer, James St. Clair, would make things "bloody" for Jaworski: "I finally said, 'I don't care how tough he is. I've come to grips with tough lawyers many times in many places, and some of them-well, St. Clair wouldn't make a pimple on their butts...
...what happened to the tapes: "Haig said, 'I don't mind telling you that I haven't the slightest doubt that the tapes were screwed with. The ones with gaps and other problems...