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...into a tablet that I was working on all the way on the plane, but I haven't come to that magic page-the last one." Once home, he watched the Senate confirmation hearings of his Cabinet nominees on television. Leaving his barbershop on Friday, Reagan commented on Haig's performance: "I think he's taking care of himself pretty well." He will spend a long weekend with his wife at their Pacific Palisades home, packing for their move to Washington this week...
...chief of staff during the final months of the Watergate crisis. So four days before the hearing opened, he met privately with Republican Senators on the committee to work out what Californian S.I. Hayakawa delicately called "friendly" answers to the expected hostile questions. But when Alexander Meigs Haig Jr., Ronald Reagan's nominee for Secretary of State, finally sat down last week at the green baize covered conference table in packed Room 1202 of the Dirksen Office Building and faced the committee's 17 members, no sharp exchanges materialized...
Instead, like the eight other Reagan Cabinet nominees who testified at other confirmation hearings last week, Haig underwent mostly gentle questioning, even from the Democrats. Not one of them disputed Chairman Charles Percy when he told Haig: "As of now, I personally have no information that would justify an adverse conclusion, or which suggests that this nomination should be delayed...
...premier appearance was. of course, that of Haig. At his own request, he testified under oath. Behind him sat Wife Patricia, Son Alexander, 28, and Brother Francis, a Jesuit priest. The former four-star general began by reading, in forceful tones, a well-reasoned, 20-page statement, in which he reminded the Senators that he had given sworn testimony on eight occasions about his actions during Watergate and other controversial events during the Nixon Administration, and that "none of these investigations has found any culpability on my part...
Indeed, Watergate was scarcely mentioned by Haig's Democratic questioners, whose attempts to gain access to still secret Nixon tapes in the National Archives were stymied-first by procedural delays in locating them and then by Nixon's threat, voiced through his lawyer, to fight in court against letting the committee hear the tapes...