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...White House. As he rode through the February darkness along the Potomac to his Mount Vernon estate, he brooded about what had happened and determined to write a book. He had his meticulous notes put in a word processor and then brought in Novelist Charles McCarry, who helped Alexander Haig write his memoir, Caveat, to restructure the material...
...criticism that he wrote too soon, Regan argues that many others -- including Haig and David Stockman -- didn't wait until the President had % left office before writing memoirs. Besides, he asks, "Do you think the Reagans should have waited ((before firing him))? Why is it that I have to live with this burden of calumny and slander and omissions...
...night he lost a straw poll in Ames County, Iowa, Bush insisted that a lot of his supporters had been busy attending social events and "debutante balls." After the debutantes had helped him win 19 percent of the turnout, Bush easily outpaced Al Haig, Pierre duPont, and Jack Kemp...
...other hand, Kalb says he was "disappointed" with Al Haig's interview. "I know he is much smarter than he came through," says Kalb, "and I was surprised that he did not take better advantage of the occasion than he did." He expresses similar disappointment with Sen. Paul Simon (D-Ill.) for "his overly simplistic presentation of very complicated ideas, particularly the manner in which he said he was going to balance the budget in three years...
...people decide. In his case they did, decisively. The people of New Hampshire and Iowa also rendered verdicts on Babbitt, whose graceful exit showed him to be a class act to the very end; Pete du Pont, who was never all that convincing as a right-winger; and Alexander Haig, who was never all that convincing as someone who should be in charge...