Word: haig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Facing the end, Nixon talked openly of suicide to his trusted aide, Chief of Staff Alexander Haig. "You fellows in your business," Nixon told the temporarily retired general, "you have a way of handling problems like this. Somebody leaves a pistol in the drawer. I don't have a pistol." It was, suggest the authors, "as if he were half asking to be given one." After that incident, Haig passed orders that Nixon not be allowed any pills, fearing he might take an overdose...
...Haig, the White House chief of staff, instructed Presidential Aide Steve Bull to stop recording the precise times of Nixon's movements. The yacht Sequoia became Nixon's favorite refuge as his prospects blackened; his enemies could be left behind as he headed down the Potomac. Perhaps that is why the President was so enraged when he found the hated newsmen and photographers waiting at the Anacostia River dock when he drove up and when he sailed back in. "Get the goddam press out of here," he would say. He wondered out loud to David Eisenhower whether...
...most desirable possible replacement was Hugh Morrow, the longtime press aide of New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller. Haig made a pitch to Morrow to become White House "Communications Director," with Cabinet status...
Nixon's pal Bebe Rebozo even sent a private jet to New York to pick up Mor row and fly him to Key Biscayne for a discussion with Haig and others. The idea was to ease Ziegler into a position at the U.S. Information Agency. Like so many other desperate plans that were considered in the dying days of Nixon's presidency, it came to nothing...
While it may never come to such a grim "doomsday" scenario, the Soviet Union's growing military muscle may well win important victories through mere intimidation. NATO Commander in Chief General Alexander Haig warns that at some future date a specific East-West pressure point could develop, as it did over Berlin and Cuba. This time, the Soviets not only would be stronger, but might also conclude that America's determination to live up to its commitments has been weakened by setbacks in Southeast Asia and southern Africa. Moscow might then risk making tough demands, on the theory...