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	Alexander Haig - MSN Encarta
		Alexander Haig, born in 1924, United States Army officer, secretary of state under President Ronald Reagan (1981-1989), and White House chief of staff during the final months of the administration of President Richard M. Nixon (1969-1974).
		Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr., was born in Bala-Cynwyd, a suburb of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
		In 1970 Haig was named deputy assistant to the president for national security affairs, and his diplomatic authority expanded to include secret peace talks in Paris aimed at ending the Vietnam War (1959-1975).
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761585441/Alexander_Haig.html (336 words)

	Alexander Haig - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Haig later served as a staff officer in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations (DCSOPS) at the Pentagon (1962-64), and then was appointed Military Assistant to Secretary of the Army Stephen Ailes in 1964.
		Haig is usually perceived as incorrect in his interpretation of the United States Constitution as far as both the presidential line of succession is concerned and in regard to the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution which deals with what happens when a president is incapacitated.
		Alexander Haig is the father of author Brian Haig.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Haig (2106 words)

	Alexander Haig - The Black Vault Encyclopedia Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Haig served as a staff officer in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations (DCSOPS) at the Pentagon (1962-64), and then was appointed Military Assistant to Secretary of the Army Stephen Ailes in 1964.
		Haig then took a leave of Absence from the Army, and then was appointed Deputy Secretary of Defense under Robert McNamara.
		Haig is co-chairman of the American Committee for Peace in the Caucasus, along with Zbigniew Brzezinski and Stephen J. Solarz.
	www.blackvault.com /wiki/index.php/Alexander_Haig (1233 words)

	Alexander Haig
		Haig served with distinction in the Korean War, beginning in 1950.
		Drawing on his combat experience and education, Haig won the post of Assistant to the Secretary of the Army in 1964, then attended the Army War College in 1966.
		Haig assisted South Vietnamese president Nguyen Van Thieu in negotiating cease-fire talks in 1972, to end the war in Vietnam.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1971.html (722 words)

	WashingtonPost.com: Watergate
		Former Nixon chief of staff Alexander Haig is one of the most frequently mentioned suspects in the Deep Throat guessing game.
		An aide to Gen. Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War, Haig served as an aide to Secretary of the Army Cyrus Vance during the Kennedy administration and as a member of the Pentagon staff during the Vietnam War.
		Haig served as secretary of state during President Reagan's first term, and managed to avoid much of the fallout from the Iran-Contra scandal.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-srv/national/longterm/watergate/whouse.htm (379 words)

	The Day Reagan Was Shot - CBS News
		Haig answered the reporter: “Constitutionally gentlemen, you have the president, the vice president and the secretary of state, in that order, and should the president decide he wants to transfer the helm to the vice president, he will do so.
		Haig was wrong to say “constitutionally.” The constitution mentions the secretary of state only in an actual transfer of power and then it places him fourth in line.
		Haig insists the briefing room appearance was meant to reassure the world and ease the pressure on the nuclear trigger.
	www.cbsnews.com /stories/2001/04/23/60II/main287292.shtml (1384 words)

	Alexander Haig
		Haig was serving as Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army when President Nixon appointed him in 1973 to rebuild the White House staff, which had been decimated by Watergate-related improprieties.
		Haig is currently president of his own private advisory firm, the Washington, D.C.-based Worldwide Associates, Inc. It assists public and private corporations, both in the United States and abroad, in developing and implementing marketing and acquisition strategies, in addition to providing strategic advice on the domestic and international political, economic and security environment.
		Also, Gen. Haig is a member of the board of directors or advisers for a number of corporations, centers, foundations and other institutions.
	www.ashbrook.org /events/lecture/1989/haig.html (628 words)

	Al Haig for President 1988 Campaign Brochure
		Alexander Haig understands the promise of America to each of its citizens.
		As a leader in the military, government, and industry, Al Haig has been sustained by the creativity, inventiveness and resourcefulness of his fellow Americans, which have bolstered his optimism about the nation's future.
		Al Haig will bring to the nation's highest office those special qualities of Presidential leadership to move our nation into the crucial decade of the 1990's.
	www.4president.org /brochures/alhaig1988brochure.htm (810 words)

	RED FILES: Soviet Propaganda Machine - Alexander Haig Interview
		General A. Haig: Well,it carried -- dependant on the attitudes and the outlook of the governments concerned, especially in the West, I think the West in general was less adept.
		General A. Haig: If one looks at a government built on lies, like the former Soviet Union, but one would have to conclude that the victims of their leadership, their own people, were, of course, deprived of the more important and universal -- of their nationhood.
		General A. Haig: I would suggest that, because we're living in a real time age, where the view of actual facts occurring on the ground overwhelm the dialogue accompanying those facts, that propaganda is becoming less important, and truthful exposition as an accompaniment to visual fact become far more critical.
	www.pbs.org /redfiles/prop/deep/interv/p_int_alexander_haig.htm (5024 words)

	Still in Control; former general and Secretary of State, Alexander Haig [Free Republic]
		Haig's hardline views were in line with Reagan's, but his frequent blunders and misstatements embarrassed the administration.
		Haig's role in promoting Poland's NATO membership was important enough that he was singled out for mention by President Clinton when the president asked Congress to approve the three countries' admission.
		Haig also lends business a helping hand in Indonesia (though his marquee value has no doubt diminished since his ally Suharto was driven from office last year).
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a37ce2b0619a2.htm (3476 words)

	Alexander Haig
		Alexander Meigs Haig, the son of a lawyer, was born in Philadelphia on 2nd December, 1924.
		Haig's next assignment was as aide-de-camp to General Edward Almond in Korea.
		He watched with dismay as Haig "allowed the president to be isolated and indeed perhaps encouraged it." White House logs of the president's last fifteen months in office show Haig and Ziegler as the aides most often let into the inner sanctum with the president.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /JFKhaig.htm (2196 words)

	Alexander Haig-Page 2
		In addition to his military accomplishments, General Haig has held a number of key positions in political and business leadership, and presently serves as Chairman of Worldwide Associates, Inc., and is a senior advisor to United Technologies Corporation.
		However, many are familiar with General Haig's reputation as a paragon of statesmanship, with the mental and tactical genius befitting a 4-star general, and the consummate diplomacy of a master negotiator at the highest levels of the public and private sectors.
		General Haig is Chairman of Worldwide Associates, Inc., which provides strategic advice on the domestic and international political, economic and security environments and their potential impact on global commercial activities.
	www.wbrtv.com /hosts/haig_2.html (463 words)

	Alexander Haig Biography (Military Leader/Presidential Advisor) — Infoplease.com
		Al Haig graduated from West Point military academy in 1947, served in Europe and Asia until 1960, worked in Washington until a combat tour in Vietnam in 1966-67, then returned to Washington in 1969 to work in the White House for Henry Kissinger.
		Haig also served as NATO commander (1974-79), and in 1981 he became Ronald Reagan's secretary of state.
		In 1981 President Reagan was injured after a failed assassination attempt and Haig famously blundered on TV, claiming constitutional authority ("I am in control here"), when, in fact, the order of succession places the secretary of state below the vice president, the speaker of the House and the president pro tempore of the Senate.
	www.infoplease.com /biography/var/alexanderhaig.html (371 words)

	DORbiopharma, Inc.
		General Haig was serving as Vice Chief of Staff of the Army when President Nixon appointed him in May 1973 to rebuild the White House staff.
		General Haig was elected President and Chief Operating Officer of United Technologies Corporation and a member of its Board of Directors on December 21, 1979.
		The Senate subsequently confirmed General Haig and he was sworn in as the Nation’s 59th Secretary of State on January 22, 1981.
	www.dorbiopharma.com /corpinfo/haig.htm (593 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Haig later became Secretary of State for President Reagan.
		HAIG: He came into office very much like young George Bush did, with a total lack of credibility for America's willingness to stand for anything.
		HAIG: He was very perceptive, and his natural instincts were the most important asset he had.
	www.cbn.com /CBNNews/News/040610a.asp (1196 words)

	Alexander Haig - Premiere Speakers Bureau (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		General Haig was serving as Vice Chief of Staff of the Army when President Nixon named him White House Chief of Staff, at which point he retired after twenty-six years in the Army.
		General Haig is currently chairman of his own advisory firm, Worldwide Associates, Inc., assisting corporations around the world in providing strategic advice on global, political, economic, commercial and security matters.
		The Haigs are the parents of three children and have eight grandchildren.
	premierespeakers.com /1593/index.cfm (772 words)

	Haig, Alexander Meigs, Jr. - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		[Haig, Alexander Meigs, Jr.] 1924-, American general and public official, U.S. Secretary of State (1981-82), b.
		He served in Korea (1950-51) and held several staff positions, including military assistant to the Secretary of the Army (1964), before serving in Vietnam (1966-67).
		Haig Running to Take Charge; Blustery General Tries for Calmer Image Series: THE '88 ASPIRANTS: Resumes and Reputations Series Number: OCC
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-haig-a1le.html (227 words)

	General Alexander Haig Joins SDC International For Tatra Acquisition
		Haig is a shareholder of SDC and will be involved primarily in the area of foreign government and military sales of Czech-manufactured Tatra trucks after completion of SDC's planned acquisition of Tatra, a.s.
		General Haig is one of the most recognized American military and governmental leaders of the past fifty years.
		During his term in the White House, Haig played large roles in negotiating the Vietnam cease-fire and the return of U.S. prisoners of war.
	www.theautochannel.com /news/press/date/19990519/press023599.html (889 words)

	Alexander Haig and the First Edition of
		Haig's draft would have made the Secretary of State the chairman of the SSG crisis staff as Reagan's "vicar of foreign policy." Haig refers to this document as National Security Directive l (NSDD l), and laments that it was never signed in its original form
		Haig was thus being told, not directly, but in a newspaper story, that he was out the door as Crisis Management Staff head.
		Haig, in support of Carter, had agreed to act as his stand-in at the NSA in the aftermath of the Carter Administration, during the first year of the Reagan Administration.
	home.att.net /~m.standridge/haig.htm (7554 words)

	SaVi Media Group - Corporate Contacts: General Alexander Haig : Strategic Advisor
		General Alexander Haig needs no introduction, as he is among the most decorated military and civilian figures of our time.
		General Haig is perhaps best known as U.S. Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan, appointed by the President-elect and confirmed by the U.S. Senate.
		General Haig is author of Caveat: Realism, Reagan and Foreign Policy, based on over three decades of experience at the highest levels of the U.S. government, and his tenure as Secretary of State, in particular (Macmillan, 1984).
	www.savimediagroup.com /contacts/General_Alexander_Haig.htm (835 words)

	Still in Control
		News: Alexander Haig seemed to slip off the global stage after his brief stint as Ronald Reagan's secretary of state.
		In April, Haig was in Washington, D.C., for yet another birthday party -- NATO's 50th -- as well as a dinner sponsored by business groups at the Willard Inter-Continental Hotel in honor of Chinese premier Zhu Rongji, who was on an official visit to the U.S. capital.
		It was a busy period -- though not unusually so -- for the 74-year-old Haig, whose years in government paved the way for his later career as a Beltway wheeler-dealer.
	www.motherjones.com /news/feature/1999/09/haig.html (3025 words)

	Notes on Alexander Meigs Haig
		Haig was one of the most effectively pro-Israel of any Government Official I can call to mind.
		Haig is rumored to have been the source of the leaks that destroyed the Nixon Presidency.
		Haig served as Secretary of State from 1983 to 1984.
	www.spongobongo.com /no9961.htm (1649 words)

	Mail2World VPs to Appear on CNBC's World Business Review Discussing Trends in eMessaging With Alexander Haig, Former ...
		On June 11, 13 and 14, 2004, Alexander Haig, former secretary of state for Ronald Reagan, will discuss the latest trends in e-messaging technology with two VPs at Mail2World, Inc. The company is a leading provider of messaging and collaboration platforms that are a cost-effective alternative to the complexity and expense of Microsoft Exchange.
		Haig opens the segment with a global view of e-messaging: “There are about half a billion people around the world who use e-mail to correspond with others.
		Haig summarizes the segment with a note of encouragement: “Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage.”
	www.emediawire.com /releases/2004/6/prweb132426.htm (675 words)

	PEOPLE I HAVE KNOWN: General HAIG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Al Haig was Commander in Chief of NATO for more than 5 years.
		He served as Chief of Staff to President Nixon and to President Ford (I knew him well in both positions), was Secretary of State under President Reagan and was the man who said that "I am in charge here" (he wasn't) on the occasion of the attempted assignation and wounding of President Ronald Reagan.
		Haig is and was living proof that you can go far if you don't stand up too much.
	www.rinfret.com /ah.html (500 words)

	Mort Sahl on Alexander Haig [rec.humor.funny] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		(The PBS "American Masters" series did a show on Mort Sahl, who had these anecdotes about Alexander Haig:) Haig offerred Sahl a Cuban cigar, whereupon Sahl wondered how an anti-communist such as Haig could be supporting Cuba by smoking their cigars.
		Haig replied that he preferred to think of it as burning their crops to the ground.
		Haig said, no, that's a common misconception, Kissinger was born in the US.
	www.netfunny.com /rhf/jokes/89q4/haig.872.html (98 words)

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