Word: haig
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with somewhat more than the usual volume. Both the Times of London and U.P.I., filing from Saigon, reported breakthroughs-and both stories were emphatically denied by both the White House and by North Vietnamese officials. Much of the speculation seemed inspired by the fact that Major General Alexander M. Haig Jr., deputy to National Security Adviser Henry Kissinger, had conferred with South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu in Saigon. TIME White House Correspondent Jerrold Schecter assesses the situation...
...return of prisoners before a political settlement is made. But there will have to be some agreed-upon conditions and procedures for the sharing of political power through a government of national union or a national commission that will include the Communists. In his talks with President Thieu, General Haig is reported to have discussed the details of the Paris talks and gone over possibilities and names for a tripartite government that would include the present regime in some form, the Communists and a neutral faction...
...search for a new Army Vice Chief of Staff, the White House last week passed over no fewer than 240 more senior generals. The President found his nominee in Presidential Adviser Henry Kissinger's West Wing office, where for nearly three years Major General Alexander M. Haig Jr., 47, has been serving as Kissinger's able deputy on the National Security Council...
...Haig is regarded as a model of calm toughness. He organizes Kissinger's paper work, sometimes stands in for him at presidential meetings, and often serves as the butt of Kissinger's jokes. But he carefully avoids the spotlight. In his present job, Haig has made eight trips to Viet Nam, where he served with the 1st Infantry Division (and won a Distinguished Service Cross) in 1966-67. Kissinger calls him "one of the outstanding military men I've met," and the President is known to have favored him for both his dedication and loyalty, and because...
Some Army men were disgruntled that the President, in promoting Haig and giving him two new stars to go with the job, had nominated a man who has never commanded a division or a corps. But others felt that the young, glamorous and politically sophisticated Haig might be just what the Army needed in combination with Abrams. As one Army general remarked: "As long as Al plays Mr. Inside and lets Abe play Mr. Outside, we'll be all right...