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...wanted him to focus his speech solely on the economic development plan, talking of plowshares rather than swords. Their aim was to tone down his hawkish image, especially concerning Cuba and Nicaragua, and to keep him personally insulated from the trying situation in El Salvador. Secretary of State Alexander Haig, however, argued that the President must include firm warnings about Communist expansion. He insisted that it would be misleading to be silent about the pressing security problems of the troubled area...
...Nixon Administration. Also in this issue are an insight into a tormented President who, always fearing catastrophe, ultimately brought it on himself; profiles of the two men who were Nixon's closest aides until they were jettisoned for their involvement in Watergate; and a portrait of Alexander Haig, Kissinger's deputy on the National Security Council and now one of his successors as Secretary of State...
...handle directly. On the evening of May 2, I received a telephone call from Rose Mary Woods, his touchingly loyal secretary who had been banished to the periphery by Haldeman but who was now back as one of Nixon's principal props. Nixon wanted to bring in Alexander Haig as chief of staff, she told me, for a week or two. He was afraid I might resent seeing my former subordinate in a technically superior position. She hoped that when Nixon told me the next morning, I would not give him a hard time; I should remember that...
...difficult to reverse the relationship with a subordinate. Yet I realized that coherence had to be restored to the White House. Nixon could not function without a strong chief of staff to shield him from the day-to-day management of the bureaucracy and to implement his decisions, and Haig was the only possible choice...
...Haig tactfully called on me the next morning. He would not accept the position without my blessing, he said; it was only for a week or so anyway. This was, of course, nonsense. Given his high commitment to service, Haig would not refuse a request by the President no matter how I might feel about it. I told Haig with conviction that he had to accept, even though it would probably mean the end of his military career. Haig replied that when he had gone on patrol in Viet Nam, he had risked not only his career but his life...