Word: haig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...found to the animosity that has blanketed the area in the quarter-century since the creation of Israel. That trust, for now at least, rests largely in the power of the U.S., which Nixon, for all his difficulties at home, still embodies. Nixon's visit, as Alexander Haig, his chief of staff, puts it, "is designed to anneal what has already happened, to reassure both sides of our willingness to play a constructive role, while realizing that it's a matter for the parties themselves to work...
...memos that have been leaked imply that Kissinger in his role as Nixon's head of the National Security Council played a more active part. A 1973 FBI report on taps placed in 1969 states: "The original requests were from either Dr. Henry Kissinger or General Alexander Haig (then Colonel Haig) for wiretap coverage on knowledgeable National Security Council personnel and certain newsmen who had particular news interest in the SALT talks." Since Haig was Kissinger's subordinate, he obviously could not have ordered the taps without Kissinger's approval. In a memo by the late...
...Nixon's foreign-affairs adviser, Kissinger badly needed a sophisticated military mind to help him organize his staff, but not too sophisticated. That is, he did not want another intellectual who would give him an argument; he got plenty of that from the academicians who worked for him. Haig stayed discreetly in the background, channeling the flow of ideas, keeping people in line, while his boss concentrated on his grand policy design...
...Haig cemented the relationship with Kissinger by solidly supporting all the controversial policies, including the mining of Haiphong harbor and the bombing of Hanoi in the last phases of the Viet Nam War. Noticing how Haig could take the flak without blinking, Nixon sent him on half a dozen diplomatic missions to Saigon. He also promoted him over 240 senior generals to the post of Army Vice Chief of Staff. When Haldeman and John Ehrlichman were forced to resign, it was not surprising that Nixon turned to Haig to give him the loyalty, efficiency and privacy he so desperately craved...
...Haig has apparently more than met the President's needs at the White House. "He practically has no self any more," says White House Counsellor Dean Burch. "He spends almost all his working hours at the White House, eating off trays, putting out fires, and putting on Band-Aids." Haig rises every morning at 6:30, scans the newspapers and reaches the West Wing of the White House at 7:50. Promptly at 8:30, he chairs a meeting of the top presidential advisers. His manner is more that of a panel moderator than a commanding general. Once...