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Nixon moved quickly to fill some of the gaping holes created in his staff. He named General Alexander M. Haig Jr., Army Vice Chief of Staff, to take over Haldeman's duties temporarily; Leonard Garment, a White House aide, to replace Dean; and Defense Secretary Elliot Richardson to succeed Kleindienst as Attorney General (see page 30). Former Deputy Secretary of Defense David Packard was, said Ziegler, the most likely choice to fill Richardson's spot as Defense Secretary. By week's end no one had yet been assigned the full range of Ehrlichman's chores, but Kenneth R. Cole...
...South Viet Nam. Communist insurgent forces, armed and led by the North Vietnamese, were besieging the Cambodian capital, Phnom-Penh. U.S. B-52s bombed through the night around Phnom-Penh, hoping to hold off the enemy and prop up the shaky, dictatorial regime of President Lon Nol. General Alexander Haig Jr., U.S. Army Vice Chief of Staff and former deputy to Henry Kissinger, was sent on a fast fact-finding tour of Indochina. While high Washington officials called the situation "abysmal" and "awful," President Nixon went off to ponder at Camp David−usually the prelude to an important announcement...
That has not happened yet−and probably will never happen. General Haig returned with a relaxed pronouncement: "The situation is very complex," he said, "but it is not as drastic as it has been described." The President came down from Camp David with nothing dramatic to announce. At a meeting of the National Security Council, the subject of Cambodia did not even come up, and Nixon did not bother to debrief Haig until the meeting was over...
Both Thieu and Nixon agreed that the U.S. should continue bombing Communist forces in Cambodia as long as they continue to reject a ceasefire. Worried about advances that they have made there, Nixon dispatched General Alexander Haig Jr., Army Vice Chief of Staff, to Cambodia. Haig will also go to Laos, Thailand and South Viet Nam to make what the White House calls "a general assessment of the situation." Thieu pressed Nixon to assure him that in case of a major Communist attack against South Viet Nam there would be an American reaction. Nixon gave a general assurance that...
...Washington was that he would-the next step is to persuade the Saigon regime of President Nguyen Van Thieu to go along. In view of Thieu's intransigence to date, that may take considerable presidential muscle. After meeting later on Sunday with both Kissinger and General Alexander M. Haig Jr., Kissinger's former aide, Nixon dispatched Haig to Saigon to put the strong arm on Thieu...