Word: haig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back to the classic Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954, when he was an assistant to Joseph N. Welch, the Army's counsel. A poised and suave performer, he has brought an aura of aggressive confidence to Nixon's defense campaign. "Jim has been a bonanza for us," observes Alexander Haig, Nixon's overworked chief of staff. Haig describes St. Clair as a man who has "considerable acumen" in the highly charged and shifting political atmosphere of Watergate...
...questions as plea bargaining and cooperation with the House Judiciary Committee. He refused on principle to meet with Nixon on accepting the assignment. He has since turned down two invitations from the President to see him. Jaworski has largely dealt with the White House through Chief of Staff Alexander Haig-with increasing impatience, though he recognizes that Haig is simply a "good soldier" obeying his commander in chiefs orders. The prosecutor was kind and courtly on the surface, as he is most of the time to everybody, but he continued to insist on getting documents that the White House...
Alexander Haig was one of the generals who ran the Indochina war. In the last year, he's become one of President Nixon's chief advisers, helping to preside over the Nixon's administration's apparent attempts to obstruct the course of justice in the Watergate investigation...
Ronald L. Ziegler. It's tough to make Gerald Warren look like George Washington, but Ziegler does his best. He's also Nixon's chief adviser these days, by many accounts, which means he's managing to add the power of a Haig to the servility of a Friedheim...
After accompanying General Alexander Haig, then Kissinger's deputy and now President Nixon's chief aide, on two trips to Southeast Asia in 1970-71, Radford came back with sheaves of top-secret documents, including "eyes only" memos between Haig and Kissinger...