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...loyalty ethic is strong with Haig. He went. But not blindly. "You won't come out alive," a friend told him. Haig had been through the Cuban missile crisis, made 13 trips to Viet Nam. "I don't think professional public servants have the luxury to play it safe in time of national crisis," he said...
General Alexander Haig has paid his dues to the United States. Several times...
From West Point to Korea, from the Pentagon to Viet Nam, he answered every call to duty. Then Richard Nixon called him one day when Haig, at the time a four-star general and Army vice chief of staff, was visiting Fort Benning. Haldeman and Ehrlichman, about to be thrown out of the White House, wanted Haig to come take charge of the staff. "I really don't think I'm the man," he said. "You don't want a military man in that...
...Haig sat last week in the luxurious office that Haldeman had crafted so carefully for himself. Almost by the hour there were new accusations hurled at him-he had got Nixon his pardon, he had subverted the Ford transition with his secrecy and obsession to protect the Nixon record. He was being blamed for more than he had ever done. But he has never admitted just how much he did do. "I may write it some day when I'm 60," he mused (he is now 49). He saw the destruction of a President at closer range than anyone...
...Nothing on the battlefield was as tough as this," Haig said. "Nor did I ever see any more human tragedy...