Word: haig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Richardson told TIME that the Nixon-Haig version was "very clearly and demonstrably untrue." He helped draw up the Stennis plan, he said, but he threatened to resign when he was told by Haig that Cox would be fired if he did not agree with the proposal. Richardson said he asked for a meeting with Nixon on that Friday morning to present his resignation notes. But Haig met him and agreed to drop the idea of firing Cox, Richardson said. That pacified Richardson...
General Alexander Haig [White House chief of staff]. I talked with him and made my position clear. He left me to tell the President and came back to say I had the assurances I had insisted upon...
...Once described by a White House official as being stored in the residential section of the White House, the tapes were now said to be kept in the Executive Office Building under the supervision of John C. Bennett, an assistant to Nixon's chief of staff, General Alexander Haig...
...absolute independence." That independence not only included asking for any tapes or other material he wanted, but also suing the President if they were not forthcoming. True, admitted Jaworski, he had been given these assurances not by the President but by White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig, who had made the pledges more than once. "Maybe I'm naive," said Jaworski, "but I accepted those assurances in good faith...
Amid the new controversy, Nixon retreated ever more into isolation, restlessly retreating to Camp David, then abruptly departing for Key Biscayne. He left behind his usual traveling aides, Alexander Haig and Ronald Ziegler, and for the first time, the permanent standby pool of seven White House correspondents and photographers who are traditionally near the President at all times...