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Nixon, 78, cradled Pat's arm, but sometimes he quavered as he moved slowly through the library. It was Al Haig, Nixon's chief of staff in 1974, who had lamented in a dim corner of the White House just a few days before Nixon was forced to resign, "He'll be dead in a year." But Nixon was too tough. And more than once in the $56.8 million Reagan Library, the Nixon spark flared. He paused in front of Reagan's letter sweater from Eureka College. "I'm proud of you, Ron," said Nixon. "At least...
...Nancy-inspired firings and forced resignations" among top Reagan officials. Along with a few Nancy Reagan did indeed play a role in removing (like former chief of staff Donald Regan) are a number she had little or nothing to do with, such as former Secretary of State Alexander Haig. What's more, Kelley fails to note that much of Nancy's advice had little effect on her husband. She started pushing for the ouster of Edwin Meese as early as 1982, for example, but Reagan stubbornly held on to his longtime adviser until Meese resigned...
...sometimes animated, sometimes weary voice, Talbott discovered there were gaps on the tapes. That was also true of a second set of tapes and transcripts, published in 1974 as Khrushchev Remembers: The Last Testament. In that Watergate summer, Talbott and Schecter joked that the same "sinister forces" that Alexander Haig blamed for erasing material from President Nixon's tapes had been at work on Khrushchev's recordings. Actually, it was obvious from the context -- and noted in the books -- what had happened: friends and relatives who had worked with Khrushchev on his memoirs had deleted remarks about Soviet and foreign...
...have never shared the mistrust that many have about Haig...
...Haig was a consummate bureaucrat, and that's said with admiration rather than condemnation. You can't get up that high in the Army without being a consummate bureaucrat. Eisenhower was a consummate bureaucrat...