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...further suffering." Carney notes that Clinton, who got a boost today when President Bush urged Congress to back his plan, will try to muster a large bipartisan group to make similar public statements. Wednesday's lineup, he says: former Defense Secretary Frank Carlucci and former Secretary of State Al Haig...
During the 1974 Watergate hearings, then-Chief of Staff Alexander Haig blamed a famous, 18 1/2-minute gap in President Nixon's tapes on "sinister forces." But a newly-released memo shows that the White House tried to blame Rosemary Woods, Nixon's loyal personal secretary, who had claimed to have erased just a small part of the tape accidentally. The memo, written by Woods' attorney and made public today by the National Archives as part of a cache of more than 35,000 Woods documents, states that White House lawyers Leonard Garment and Fred Buzhardt told U.S. Judge John Sirica...
Sahl, a speech writer for John F. Kennedy '40, Ronald Reagan and Alexander Haig, performed as part of the "Learning From Performers" series sponsored by the Office for the Arts...
During an uneventful meeting, Ronald Reagan sends Secretary of State Al Haig a note: "We should be out swimming in that fountain." Haig immediately scribbles back, "Yes, without all these clothes on." "I agree," Reagan responds, then falls asleep...
Nixon then offered to produce an edited summary of the tapes. When Cox rejected that idea, Nixon on Oct. 20 angrily told Richardson to fire Cox. Richardson refused and resigned instead. Nixon told Deputy Attorney General William Ruckelshaus to fire Cox; he too refused and resigned. General Alexander Haig, Haldeman's successor as White House chief of staff, finally got Solicitor General Robert Bork to do the job, and so the "Saturday Night Massacre" ended, leaving the Nixon Administration a shambles. (In the midst of all this, it was almost incidental that Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned under fire...