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...proposal appears in an interim transition team report to be presented to Gen. Alexander M. Haig, whom Reagan yesterday nominated for secretary of state. Neumann said, adding. "It is not going to happen, in my opinion...
...know what Haig's plans are going to be, but the proposal is still kicking around, one State Department team member said, referring to the proposal for a sixth undersecretary of state...
Pipes also said that no decision had been made on what post, if any, he will assume in the new Reagan administration. "There's a lot of fluidity in these jobs...they have to be defined and negotiated," he said, adding that he had not yet spoken to Haig about a possible position...
Almost as bad would be the selection for Secretary of State of former Nixon chief of staff and NATO commander Alexander Haig. Haig's role in Watergate remains an open question; a man with questions of that sort in his past should not be given a position of major national responsibility. If Reagan should offer his name to the Senate, we urge the most careful scrutiny of Haig's Watergate involvement--and expect that that would render his approval impossible...
...week's end Washington was alive with reports that Haig would face a stiff confirmation fight in the Senate, and that the President-elect had still not definitely offered the general the job. There were few other serious candidates. Reagan might offer the post to Weinberger, but that would leave a vacancy at Defense, or to former Secretary of the Treasury...