Word: haig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aware" of talk about his resigning but was determined to concentrate on what he had "to accomplish in the second term." Instead of watching the Watergate testimony on television, he relied on a daily summary prepared at the direction of the new White House chief of staff General Alexander Haig. Most afternoons and evenings he secluded himself in the Executive Office Building, where he was said to be preparing for next month's meeting with Soviet Communist Leader Leonid Brezhnev...
GENERAL ALEXANDER MEIGS HAIG JR., 48, succeeds H.R. Haldeman as the man who runs the White House staff and governs accessibility to the President. For the duration of his temporary assignment, he may become the second most powerful man in the White House. His main mission will be to reknit a staff that has been torn apart by Watergate. It is another command performance asked of a man whose desire to be a soldier has often been frustrated by his talents as an organizer and superefficient headquarters type...
...undistinguished cadet at West Point, Haig graduated in the middle of his class (1947), learned the art of briefing while on General Douglas MacArthur's staff during the Korean War. That job and then a case of hepatitis kept him from the fighting. He was late getting to Viet Nam because Defense Secretary Robert McNamara wanted to keep him in the Pentagon as a special assistant. Finally, in 1966-67, he commanded first a battalion, then a brigade in combat. He was seriously wounded and had several close brushes with death. As a colonel, he was asked to join...
...Haig never aspired to be an innovator in diplomatic affairs, but shone as the organizer and expediter, with a loudly expressed detestation of "gimmickry." As a substitute for Kissinger in briefing the President, Haig came to know Nixon well. During the last dry run for Nixon's journey to Peking, Haig served as advance man, inspecting each place the President would visit in China. He has also made twelve trips to Southeast Asia for the White House...
...Haig is reputed to have no enemies, though he is envied by the 230 officers he leaped over in going from two-star to four-star rank. Appointed the Army's Vice Chief of Staff only last January, Haig will not have to leave the service to take his temporary White House assignment. He will have little time for his wife, a general's daughter, and their three children. And he won't be spending much time with the troops, either...