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...Inside betting for Secretary of State now runs to William Casey, a former Undersecretary of State for economic affairs who took John Sears' place as campaign director this year, and George Shultz, a former Treasury Secretary. Other possibilities: Senator Paul Laxalt, campaign chairman, and former Nixon Aides Alexander Haig and Donald Rumsfeld. Sears urged Reagan to keep open the option of naming Henry Kissinger before the election in order to broaden his support. "Kissinger is quite an asset in terms of the credibility he maintains," says Sears. "He could be a great help to anyone who happened...
...pages; $10.95). Agnew says he would never have given up the post if his boss had supported him. But when word leaked that Agnew was under investigation for accepting kickbacks even while in the White House, the President dexterously arranged to jettison him. His Chief of Staff, General Alexander Haig, finally warned that if Agnew did not step down, things could "get nasty and dirty...
Recently, Bakshian took some time off from freelancing to help Dick Nixon edit his memoirs. On the issues, he admits, he stands closest to George Bush. And Bakshian says that Jerry Ford ("on all the big things, he made the right decisions"), Alexander Haig or Scoop Jackson (save for the fact that "he has all the personality of a three-day-old Fresca") would function well in the White House...
...Bush rekindled concerns about his propensity for hyperdeliberation. Why did he not distance the G.O.P. from Nixon? If he could not do that, then why did he not quit? His answer was like those of Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and White House Chief of Staff General Alexander Haig. Bush stayed to preserve some order as the House of Nixon collapsed. Nixon's guilt had not been proved in court, nor had he been impeached. Bush tiptoed once more: mannered, thoughtful, searching for a civilized route through anarchy. But his quiet political diplomacy seemed to many to be excessively...
...presidency was on General Alexander M. Haig Jr.'s mind last June when he relinquished his NATO command and retired from the Army. But the onetime chief of staff of the Nixon White House soon discovered that he had no constituency to return him to Pennsylvania Avenue on his own. Last week Haig, 55, settled for a leadership role of a different sort: president and chief operating officer of United Technologies Corp., a Connecticut-based company that manufactures everything from air conditioners and escalators to jet engines and helicopters. He will earn roughly twice the $200,000 a year...