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...from his bedside table and wrote a six-page outline of the main points he wanted to make. That evening he sailed on the Potomac for two hours aboard the presidential yacht Sequoia with his favorite speechwriter, Raymond Price. The following day he asked his chief of staff, Alexander Haig, to poll the White House senior staff and others for their thoughts on what he should say and how he should say it. Suggestions ranged, as one staff member later described it, from "mea culpas to a two-fisted hard-line approach." But the consensus was that the speech should...
ANDREW JOHNSON was impeached on the grounds that he failed to follow proper procedure in appointing his Cabinet. Richard M. Nixon allowed L. Patrick Gray to serve--apparently illegally--as "interim" FBI director for almost a year. His new chief aide, Gen. Alexander Haig, is now serving at the White House while allegedly illegally retaining his military commission so that he can accumulate enough military service to qualify for a general's pension...
...Richard Nixon emerged from the South Front of the White House, he seemed forlorn, his shoulders sagging. None of his family were with him. He climbed into his long Lincoln limousine with his new chief of staff, General Alexander Haig. The eight-car motorcade, led by a car full of Secret Service agents, slid off into the cool, clear Washington night. Thirty-eight minutes later, again looking preoccupied and rather alone, Nixon checked into the third-floor presidential suite at Bethesda Naval Hospital. The President, said his personal physician, Dr. Walter R. Tkach, had come down with viral pneumonia...
...Laird, Bryce Harlow, the new White House political operative, and Al Haig, the chief of staff, are fighting this crushing weight of discouragement. So is Nixon in a way, but he remains a distracted-and now ill-man. ("How do we get him out of that cocoon?" worried one White House official last week...
...deliberate attempt to put as much distance as possible between the presidency and the Watergate revelations. The complicated filtering process was almost bizarre. Every day three White House aides back in Washington monitored the hearings. Then the verbatim transcripts were transmitted to the Western White House. From these, Haig, who reportedly had not watched the hearings either, boiled down a summary for the President...