Alexander Haig(1924-2010)

Nixon's Chief of Staff, 1973-74. Finally urged Nixon to resign. NATO Commander from 1975 to 1979. Secretary of State for Ronald Reagan. Got himself in hot water after the assassination attempt against the President in March 1981 when he appeared in the Press Room in the White House and announced "As of now, I'm in charge here." Vice-President George Bush was on an airplane en-route from Texas at this time. Constitutionally, the next in line in the order of succession is the Vice-President, then the Speaker of the House, then the Senate Pro Tempore, THEN the Secretary of State. His tenure as Secretary of State ended in June 1982, after his unsuccessful attempts to broker a peace settlement between Britain and Argentina in the Falklands War.

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The American President

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Benjamin Harrison(voice)

Les Hommes de la Maison Blanche

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Alexander Haig

1998

The 11 O'Clock Show

7.2

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Self(as General Alexander Haig)

CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite

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Self - U.S. Secretary of State

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Alternative names
- Gen. Alexander Haig
Born
- December 2, 1924
- Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, USA
Died
- February 20, 2010
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA(complications from an infection)
Spouse
- Patricia Antoinette FoxMay 24, 1950 - February 20, 2010 (his death, 3 children)
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U.S. Secretary of State (1981-1982).

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[on the introduction of a secret recording facility in the Oval Office by President Nixon]. It never occurred to me that anyone in his right mind would install anything so Orwellian as a system that never turned off, that preserved every word, every curse, every tantrum, every flight of presidential paranoia, every bit of flattery and bad advice and tattling by his advisers.