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...nation's press, only to change with the next edition. Like Kremlinologists, Washington's mighty attempted to read vast significance into who was placed next to whom at dinners. Meese created a stir at one by sitting next to the wife of former NATO Commander Alexander Haig. But Haig, who was also present, would say nothing, and Meese kept repeating his favorite line: "Those who know aren't talking, and those who are talking don't know...
Weinberger's selection, which was still not final at week's end, opened the job of Secretary of State as a possibility for General Haig, 56. Haig's insistence that the U.S. must counter the Soviet military buildup and threatening moves in the Third World parallels the foreign policy views of Reagan. Haig also wins applause from Western Europeans for his stress on strengthening the NATO alliance. Says a top West German defense official: "The man is quite simply the best that Washington has ever sent us." Haig was considered for Secretary of Defense, but that post...
Although he was the leading candidate for State, Haig had his own problems. Conflict of interest was no apparent hazard: Haig is now president of United Technologies Corp., which does nearly 25% of its $9 billion business with the Government, but he has been in that job only a year and could cut his ties with little strain. The real trouble was that party factions on both the right and left found fault with Haig, who had been Richard Nixon's last White House Chief of Staff. Although Haig is often credited with having kept the Government functioning through...
...accord with the ExCab format, Reagan has reportedly selected the secretaries of State, Defense, the Treasury and the Attorney General--Gen. Alexander M. Haig Jr., Caspar W. Weinberger '38, Walter B. Wriston and William French Smith respectively--as his "inner ring" of advisers...
...early favorite for the State Department was believed to be fading: some Reaganites feel he is too sympathetic to the Arab cause, and he is opposed by organized labor and right-wing conservatives. Along with Weinberger, one leading candidate being mentioned for State is former NATO Commander Alexander Haig, once Nixon's Chief of Staff in the White House. The leader of the talent-seeking group, Attorney William French Smith, was also being described as a possible Attorney General...