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...prepared to write his resignation speech, Nixon said to his aide, General Alexander Haig: "Well, I screwed it up real good, real good, didn't I?" Nixon also told Haig that there would be no plea bargaining with the Watergate special prosecutor, Leon Jaworski: "I would not be coaxed out of office by any special deals, or cajoled into resigning in exchange for leniency. I was not leaving from fear, and I would take my chances. 'Some of the best writing in history has been done from prison,' I said. 'Think of Lenin and Gandhi...
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...because of the speechwriter's unflagging belief in Nixon's policies and his conviction that politicos and journalists invoking a double standard were persecuting the president, Price says he felt no sense of "moral outrage" when White House chief of staff Alexander Haig called him into his office one morning late in July 1974, and presented Price with a transcript of the soon-to-be released "smoking gun" tape of June 23, 1972, which demonstrated beyond doubt that Nixon had participated in the coverup from the start...
...were strongly supported by the military. One Pentagon official said, "NATO is a defense alliance. It won't attack. Any attack will be conducted on friendly territory. We want to deter attack and defend territory without destroying what we want to save." In Belgium, NATO Commander General Alexander Haig Jr. said that America's allies had given the bomb their "enthusiastic support...