Alexander Haig
General Douglas MacArthur’s deputy chief of staff during the Korean War.
Fought in Vietnam.
Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford’s chief of staff.
Wanted to tear out Nixon’s taping system when he found out about it, saying “It never occurred to me that anyone in his right mind would install anything so Orwellian as a system that never shuts off, that preserved every word, every joke, ever curse, every tantrum, every flight of presidential paranoia, every bit of flattery and bad advice and tattling by his advisors.” He felt the tapes made Nixon “a laughingstock.”
Got George H.W. Bush to strong-arm the Maryland District Attorney, through the DA’s senator brother, while Nixon was trying to dump Spiro Agnew.
Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of State.
After Reagan was shot, he went on CNN and announced he was “in control.” He was not, as shown in the graphic below.
Buried in Arlington National Cemetery.
Same Bed Different Dreams by Ed Park
