Word: haig
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...become somewhat tarnished, and Washington observers have seized every opportunity to search for hints of a rift between the President and his foreign policy adviser-including last week's congenial ceremony at which Nixon awarded a Distinguished Service Medal to Kissinger's longtime deputy, General Alexander H. Haig Jr. But in the end, obviously, Kissinger's reputation-and his place in history-will stand on what finally happens in Paris...
...week. Henry Kissinger, his own game plan in disarray, went to a Washington Redskins football game, then flew to Palm Springs, Calif., for a New Year's vacation. There, at one point, photographers discovered him strolling with Hollywood Executive Bob Evans. Kissinger's deputy, General Alexander Haig, was "on leave," and outgoing Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird was in Hawaii saying farewell to the Pacific Command. Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler was on a week's vacation in California. Behind this all too casual facade was the Administration's determination that once the decision to bomb...
...keep it that way, Nixon also had an ultimatum of sorts last week for South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu. Nixon sent Kissinger's deputy, General Alexander Haig, to Saigon with a letter for Thieu. It warned Thieu against making any diversionary peace demands of his own and told him to be prepared to sign any agreement reached between Washington and Hanoi. If he demurs, Nixon said, Congress will be inclined to end all assistance to South Viet Nam and, he implied, the White House would not press Capitol Hill to do otherwise. Apparently Washington wanted Hanoi...
...himself to the scorn of his academic peers (after the Cambodian invasion) and serve the President with a total loyalty that is matched inside the White House only by H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, Press Secretary Ronald Ziegler and Kissinger's own deputy on the National Security Council, General Alexander Haig. Once, after listening to department spokesmen advocating their parochial concerns before the National Security Council, Kissinger stalked out of the room, grumbling that "not a goddamned one of them except the President cared about the national interest...
...time the talks went well enough for his deputy, General Alexander Haig, to return to Washington to prepare to take a completed agreement to Saigon. But then Kissinger raised the DMZ issue for the second time, and Le Duc Tho exploded. Obviously reflecting Politburo decisions, the North Vietnamese angrily retracted concessions made in earlier sessions and flung down new demands...