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There is an unmistakable I-told-you-so relish to his voice as he belittles Reagan's foreign policy mistakes. His contempt for George Bush is genuine. Haig's most important effect on the 1988 campaign may come from his search- and-destroy missions against Bush during the debates. Even if Haig's barbs don't cost Bush the nomination, they will serve as ammunition for a Democratic challenger in the fall...
Raised in a middle-class Catholic family in a Philadelphia suburb, Haig was energetic and determined even as a boy, with his sights set on being a soldier. His older sister Regina recalls young Alec at age four, in a little cap, blowing his toy bugle until his lips were raw and swollen. His father, a lawyer, died when Alec was ten, and his mother raised three children alone, aided financially by a prosperous uncle. Haig had his heart set on West Point, but had to apply twice and use his uncle's political connections to get in. Haig...
...wife Patricia in occupied Japan, where he was assigned to the 1st Cavalry Division. He played football and drove a Kaiser; she was very pretty, conventtrained and a general's daughter. They were married under crossed swords in 1950, then Haig went off to the Korean front as an aide-de- camp to General Edward Almond...
...Haig had left the White House and was back at the Pentagon when the Watergate scandal broke. Nixon appointed him White House chief of staff after John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman resigned. Unswervingly loyal to Nixon, Haig nevertheless established a good relationship with Watergate Special Prosecutor Leon Jaworski. Many credit Haig with running the country while Nixon fought impeachment...
...time he left NATO in 1979, Haig had won praise from initially skeptical allies for restoring the morale and readiness of allied troops. Upon his return to the U.S., he briefly contemplated a run for the White House, then settled down to make money as president of United Technologies Corp. for a year before becoming Secretary of State...