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Lynchburg News and Advance
December 3, 2017
William P. Rogers and Alexander Haig Jr., two other secretaries of state serving Republican presidents, illustrate Tillerson's task in serving Donald Trump. ... Alexander Haig, Ronald Reagan's choice as secretary of state, made the mistake of thinking he should have a lead role in shaping foreign policy.
Belleville News-Democrat
August 13, 2016
The collection includes handwritten notes from political stalwarts of the time, such as President Ronald Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig Jr., as well as autographed pictures of former presidents, senators and other famous people. A bag of leftover campaign buttons in one box contains “DixonÃâà...
National Catholic Reporter
January 25, 2015
Instead, the Reagan administration that came into office in 1981 ratcheted up support for the Salvadoran government. Secretary of State Alexander Haig Jr. fired White. Over the next 10 years, 75,000 Salvadorans died, most of them unarmed noncombatants at the hands of the military and death squads.
Washington Business Journal (blog)
April 9, 2013
The estate of the Alexander Haig Jr., President Ronald Reagan's secretary of state, who died in 2010, has traded for nearly $5.2 million. The sprawling mansion at 626 Chain Bridge Road in McLean, which has five bedrooms, two kitchens and views overlooking the Potomac River, was sold March 22 toÃâà...
Uncovered Politics
April 28, 2012
One of President Ronald Reagan's closest friends, Laxalt had served as national chairman of Reagan's presidential campaigns in 1976, 1980 and 1984. ... field that then included Vice President George H. W. Bush, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas, former Secretary of State Alexander Haig, Jr.,Ãâà...
CBS News
February 20, 2010
So Alexander Haig, who at that time was an instructor at West Point and who had had distinguished and decorated service in Vietnam, was brought to my ... When asked about the occasion of the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan, where he said "I'm in charge here," Kissinger said, "First of all, whenÃâà...
UC Santa Barbara
April 7, 2009
Files on individuals read like a "Who's Who" of the period and include James Baker, George H. W. Bush, William Casey, David Gergen, Alexander Haig, Jr., Jeane Kirkpatrick, Henry Kissinger, Robert McFarlane, Edwin Meese, John Poindexter, Colin Powell, Nancy Reagan, and Caspar Weinberger.
CBS News
November 15, 2003
Alexander Haig Jr., as Reagan's secretary of state. Later, Nixon said Reagan's economic policies were unduly harsh and cautioned against giving him too much credit for winning the Cold War. "Communism would have collapsed anyway," he told Monica Crowley, a Nixon aide in his last years, according toÃâà...
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