Word: haig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...balding scholar, Scowcroft may well be the ablest member of Ford's White House staff. Now an Air Force lieutenant general, he will resign his commission when he takes over his new job. He became Kissinger's NSC deputy in 1973 shortly after his predecessor, General Alexander Haig, was named Army Vice Chief of Staff. Since then Scowcroft has labored up to 16 hours a day in a cluttered cubicle adjoining Kissinger's spacious West Wing office. One of his first duties each day was normally to give the President a 15-min. briefing...
Delayed Delivery. The report implicitly raises questions about the professional conduct of Nixon's principal lawyers: James St. Clair, J. Fred Buzhardt and Charles Alan Wright. It alleges that they, as well as former White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig, repeatedly impeded the work of the prosecutors, first Archibald Cox and then Leon Jaworski. They did so, according to the report, by delaying the delivery of evidence, sometimes claiming they could not find it, until courts required that it be produced. Wright, a law professor at the University of Texas, was specifically cited for having vouched in court...
...missiles was that the U.S. production line that had been turning out the Pershing had long since been shut down. The alternative was to shift Pershings to Israel from Europe, where they are attached to NATO. Touring military bases in Europe last week, Schlesinger met with General Alexander Haig, commander of NATO forces-and, ironically, Kissinger's onetime closest aide-who insisted that the removal of the missiles would create a serious hole in NATO's counterstrike firepower against a Soviet assault. Haig was backed by U.S. European allies...
...professional soldier who served as a foreign policy aide to Henry Kissinger, General Alexander Haig reluctantly gave up his job as Army Vice Chief of Staff to become chief of staff of Richard Nixon's White House after H.R. Haldeman was forced to quit. In that thankless assignment, Haig played a pivotal role as Nixon left office and, for all practical purposes, was the acting President in Nixon's last anguished days. After helping Gerald Ford settle into office, last October Haig was picked by the new President to be Supreme Allied Commander Europe, following a succession...
...with his character as a rootless outsider who bitterly resented social slights offered him by men like Eisenhower and Rockefeller. Most important, White's book includes an absorbing day-by-day account, based on personal interviews, of what the President and the men around him-especially General Alexander Haig and Lawyers Leonard Garment and James St. Clair-were doing during the final weeks of the crisis. For some days, White says, Haig was in fact the country's "Acting President" as he maneuvered to help bring about a resignation, while the moody Nixon veered between defensive anger...