In 1969, Haig became an assistant to national security advisor Henry Kissinger. He became vice chief of staff of the Army, the Army's second-highest-ranking position, in 1972. After the 1973 resignation of H. R. Haldeman, Haig became President Nixon's chief of staff.

2010年3月8日 · Alexander Haig, who served his country during turbulent times, was such a person. I recruited him for the National Security Council staff as my deputy. One of his principal tasks was to help end a war that President Richard Nixon had inherited and in which Al had fought. It proved a heartrending journey, especially for a soldier.

2010年2月20日 · The following are excerpts of an interview by CBS Radio correspondent Abby Regier of former National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger about Alexander Haig, who passed...

1975年6月9日 · A professional soldier who served as a foreign policy aide to Henry Kissinger, General Alexander Haig reluctantly gave up his job as Army Vice Chief of Staff to become chief of staff of...

2023年11月29日 · A few minutes after receiving Nixon’s call on Cambodia, Kissinger telephones his military assistant, Alexander Haig, about the orders from ”our friend.” After he describes Nixon’s instructions for a ”massive bombing campaign” involving ”anything that flys [sic] on anything that moves,” the notetaker apparently heard Haig ...

1980年12月2日 · Alexander Haig was discovered by Fritz Kraemer and placed during his career under various patrons in the Defense Department where Kraemer worked. Haig also was brought into National Security by Kissinger and promoted from colonel to general.

2010年3月8日 · Kissinger was Secretary of State from 1973 to ’77 and National Security Adviser from 1969 to ’75. Wherever he served, he made a difference. That is the compliment Al Haig, who died on Feb. 20...

1970年12月9日 · A few minutes after receiving Nixon’s call on Cambodia, Kissinger telephones his military assistant, Alexander Haig, about the orders from ”our friend.” After he describes Nixon’s instructions for a ”massive bombing campaign” involving ”anything that flys [sic] on anything that moves,” the notetaker apparently heard Haig ...

In 1969, Haig met Dr. Henry Kissinger, the national security advisor to President Richard M. Nixon. Kissinger liked the way Haig got things done and knew that his background would serve him well, when he appointed him to be his military advisor on the National Security Council staff.

1987年1月19日 · The ghost in the Reagan rafters is Alexander Meigs Haig Jr.--one-time National Security Council staff deputy to Henry A. Kissinger, White House chief of staff for Richard M. Nixon and, in...