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...Dave -- how'd you like to make a full-time job of it? This suits the Machiavellian purposes of chief of staff Bob Alexander (played with joyously evil relish by Frank Langella). As his name suggests, he combines the less attractive traits of Bob Haldeman and Alexander Haig. He's been running Mitchell (whom Kline also plays), and he's not about to abandon power gracefully. Besides, this putz should be a pushover...
Richard Nixon made the final decision to yield the presidency, and the inevitability of his departure had been writ large for days. Still, the pain was intense. Not long before Nixon made that final wave from the door of his helicopter, Alexander Haig, then the White House chief of staff, met with a friend in the shadowy Map Room in the basement of the Mansion. "He will be dead within a year," said Haig of Nixon, having witnessed an emotional wound beyond anything Haig the soldier had seen before...
...score of witnesses, including several Pentagon officials, who maintain that many Americans were left behind when the Nixon Administration brought servicemen home at the conclusion of the talks. Insiders say the hearing will be "tough on Dr. K." Kissinger will be followed by other heavyweight witnesses, including Al Haig and Acting Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger. Even Kissinger's old boss, Richard Nixon, has sought legal advice in preparation for a deposition on the matter that has been requested by the committee...
...conservative Polish-born scholar who headed the NSC's Soviet and East European desks. "The President talked about the evil of the Soviet system -- not its people -- and how we had to do everything possible to help these people in Solidarity who were struggling for freedom. People like Haig and Commerce Secretary Malcolm Baldrige and James Baker ((White House chief of staff at the time)) thought it wasn't realistic. George Bush never said a word. I used to sit behind him, and I never knew what his opinions were. But Reagan really understood what was at stake...
...Almost everything having to do with Poland was handled outside of normal State Department channels and would go through Casey and Clark," says Robert McFarlane, who served as a deputy to both Clark and Haig and later as National Security Adviser to the President. "I knew that they were meeting with Pio Laghi, and that Pio Laghi had been to see the President, but Clark would never tell me what the substance of the discussions...