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Alexander Meigs Haig Jr. (/ h eɪ ɡ /; 2 December 1924 – 20 February 2010) was United States Secretary of State under president Ronald Reagan and White House chief of staff under presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. [1]
In 1972, the White House Plumbers break into The Watergate and are subsequently arrested. Eighteen months later in December 1973, Richard Nixon's Chief of Staff, Alexander Haig, brings Nixon audio tapes for Nixon to listen to.
Years later, White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig speculated that the erasures may conceivably have been caused by Nixon himself. According to Haig, the president was "spectacularly inept" at understanding and operating mechanical devices, and in the course of reviewing the tape in question, he may have caused the erasures by fumbling with ...
During the meeting Nixon voiced suspicion of Alexander Haig being involved [7] and discussed prosecuting Admiral Moorer. [1] Eventually Nixon decided to cover up the affair on the advice of Attorney General Mitchell, believing its revelation would hurt military morale and that ignoring it would cause the Joint Chiefs of Staff to be indebted to ...
Evidence emerged that eight days before Nixon’s resignation in August 1974, Nixon adviser Alexander Haig raised a possible pardon with Ford, but Ford said he made no commitment.
In his 1979 autobiography, A Time to Heal, Ford wrote about a meeting he had with White House Chief of Staff Alexander Haig before Nixon's resignation. Haig was explaining what he and Nixon's staff thought were Nixon's only options. He could try to ride out the impeachment and fight against conviction in the Senate all the way, or he could resign.
In another esteemed telepic that year, “The Final Days,” about the Nixon White House, the actor played Gen. Alexander Haig. In addition to his work for Woody Allen, he played a wealthy ...
Journalist Barry Werth discusses the 38th president's defining moment of presidential leadership: his pardon of Richard Nixon. Gerald Ford: Doing the wrong thing for the right reasons [Video] Skip ...