Word: haig
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thursday Morning, Aug. 8, resignation was transmuted from the tragic to the routine. Haig told me that Nixon would see Ford at 11 a.m. to tell him formally of his plan to resign. Some Cabinet members called, asking whether they should publicly announce their readiness to continue in office. I counseled against it; they should not deprive the new President of options...
...nonpayment and resulting hasty bailout caught State Department officials off guard. No mention had been made of this possibility when Secretary of State Alexander Haig visited Rumania earlier in February. Now Washington officials are beginning to wonder whether Rumania will be able to meet payments on the billions of dollars more that it owes to commercial banks round the world. Almost half of Rumania's debt load is in the form of short-term loans that must be either rolled over or paid in less than a year...
...heat is on to produce footage to accompany what some newsmen call "Mr. Haig's war." Compared with earlier days, there is less camaraderie and pack journalism, there are fewer collective safaris. The competition often borders on frenzy. The TV networks are under pressure to produce bang-bang. "Bang-bang," explains one network TV producer, "is the hook that gets it into the tin. A massacre will do it also." But the army and the guerrillas are not always cooperative. At times there is no bang-bang-at least the networks and still photographers can't find...
...tidbits leaked to the Washington Post of what Secretary of State Alexander Haig said privately to his senior staff over the course of a year, the most memorable was his description of the British Foreign Secretary. He called Lord Carrington a "duplicitous bastard." The Post was so proud of its sneak look at what it called the "unvarnished Haig" that it devoted about 300 sq. in. of one day's paper to Haig's "private and apparently candid pronouncements." It proved a damp squib...
...serious practitioners of the art of insult, the British probably dismiss Haig's testy comment on Carrington as hardly in the same world class as the invective of Lloyd George, who said that Winston Churchill would "make a drum out of the skin of his own mother in order to sound his own praises"; of World War Fs Field Marshal Haig that he "was brilliant to the top of his army boots"; of Lord Derby that he was "like a cushion who always bore the impress of the last man who sat on him." Devastating ad libs and insults...