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...lieutenants gone, Nixon had to deal with a new staff that has not yet shaken down into a smoothly functioning team. As the week passed, it became increasingly clear that the President has replaced the old "Berlin Wall" of Haldeman and Ehrlichman with a new wall of Alexander Haig and Ronald Ziegler. Deputy Press Secretary Warren, who has taken over many of Ziegler's customary duties while Ziegler spends his time working with the President on unspecified matters, reported that Nixon had not so much as talked on the telephone with his counsels in charge of the Watergate problem...
...chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, left for a bankers' meeting in Paris on June 5 with the understanding that Nixon had decided on a program far less drastic than the freeze. The next morning, Nixon sent a memo to his advisers through Chief of Staff Alexander Haig asking for new information on a variety of economic matters. Administration aides speculated that the President was persuaded to change course by Melvin Laird, who had just signed on as Nixon's domestic affairs chief and promptly advocated bold economic moves...
...undertow that imperils his survival, Richard Nixon finally moved to give his Administration a new aura of openness, experience and professionalism. With plenty of outside help, he persuaded a highly regarded political pro, Melvin Laird, to become his top domestic affairs adviser. He coaxed a superb organizer, General Alexander Haig Jr., to resign from a brilliant Army career and become White House Chief of Staff. He nominated one of the nation's most proficient law enforcement officials, Kansas City Police Chief Clarence Kelley, to head the FBI. All three will fill vacancies created by the scandal...
Although always an obedient aide, Haig is more accessible and has more good cheer than his predecessor, the dour H.R. Haldeman. Says one Nixon aide: "Haldeman issued orders. You work with Haig as an equal." A former assistant to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in the Johnson Administration and to Henry Kissinger in the Nixon Administration, Haig leapfrogged from colonel to four-star Army Vice Chief of Staff in three years. He had been expected to head the reconstruction of the post-Viet Nam Army...
...Nixon statement was hammered together, in an atmosphere of increasing urgency, over a week's time. The first strategy discussions were held on the presidential yacht Sequoia as Nixon, his new Chief of Staff General Alexander Haig Jr. and Press Secretary Ronald