Sir Douglas Haig, then commanding at Aldershot, therefore took I Corps HQ to France with 1st Division and 2nd Division under command, and it remained on the Western Front throughout the war.

Haig was re-elected to the legislature in 1922, 1927 and 1932, and remained an important voice for the party.

" Chained " proved a highlight on the next Haig album, although Mackenzie's version of " Reach The Top " remained unreleased after the Associates ' patchy Glamour Chase set was shelved by WEA.

* 1924 – Alexander Haig, American Soldier & Civil servant, 7th Supreme Allied Commander Europe, 5th White House Chief of Staff and 59th United States Secretary of State ( d. 2010 )

The authors also argued that Alexander Haig was not Deep Throat but was a key source for Bob Woodward, who as a Naval officer had briefed Haig at the White House in 1969 and 1970.

Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. ( December 2, 1924 – February 20, 2010 ) was a United States Army general who served as the United States Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and White House Chief of Staff under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.

Haig continued in this position until 1973, when he was appointed to be Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, a post he held until the last few months of President Nixon's tenure, during which he served as White House Chief of Staff.

Haig served as White House Chief of Staff, while still retaining his Army commission, during the height of the Watergate affair from May 1973 until September 1974, taking over the position from H. R.

In 1981, following the March 30 assassination attempt on Reagan, Haig asserted before reporters " I am in control here " as a result of Reagan's hospitalization, indicating that, while President Reagan had not " transfer the helm ", Haig was in fact directing White House Crisis Management until Vice President Bush arrived in Washington to assume that role.

The headquarters ' new home in Mons, Belgium, was the center of international attention from time to time as new Supreme Allied Commanders came and went, with one of the more notable being General Alexander M. Haig, Jr. Haig, who had retired from military service in order to serve as White House Chief of Staff for President Richard Nixon during the depths of the Watergate crisis, was abruptly installed as SACEUR after Watergate's denouement.

However, at a White House briefing on October 8 with National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger and General Alexander M. Haig, Kissinger delayed the mission to the November window because President Nixon was not in Washington and could not be briefed in time for approval of the October window.

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One famous incident occurred involved Matsunaga and then-Secretary of State Alexander Haig at a White House reception for Japanese Prime Minister Zenko Suzuki in 1981.

He was often shown to hold strongly conservative political positions ( albeit to a lesser extent than in The Acadamia Waltz ), to the extent that the Reagan White House's policies, staunchly and unchallenged conservative especially at the time they were implemented, were only sometimes enough to satisfy him, with him remarking early in the President's tenure that he thought " Haig and the generals should run Reagan and his liberal pack right out of the White House ", though both he and the other ( mostly liberal ) characters became less hostile to Reagan's policies as both the strips run and Reagan's tenure ran on.

( The Deacon was so named because of the previous role of the actor who played him ( John Barron ) as a Cathedral Dean in the sitcom All Gas and Gaiters ; the writers claimed not to know at the time that Alexander Haig, Reagan's first Secretary of State, was known as The Vicar in the White House.

This left the British forces vulnerable to German attack, and after the German Spring Offensives Lloyd George misled the House of Commons in claiming that Haig's forces were stronger at the start of 1918 than they had been a year earlier-in fact the increase was in the number of Chinese, Indian and black South African labourers, and Haig had fewer infantry, holding a longer stretch of front.

In the Washington House of Representatives it is represented by Brian Blake, Fred Finn, Kathy Haig, Lynn Kessler, Dean Takko, and Kevin Van De Wege.

House of 1000 Corpses is a 2003 American exploitation horror film written and directed by Rob Zombie, and starring Sid Haig, Bill Moseley, Sheri Moon Zombie, Karen Black, Rainn Wilson and Erin Daniels.

Through the memorial arch and in front of School House is a life-size statue of Haig.

Other nearby landmarks include Earl Haig Secondary School, Gibson House, Toronto Centre for the Arts and York Cemetery.

Nash further embellished other areas of Brown's external building works, including Brown's Gothic Bath House in the North Avenue, as well as reorganising the internal layout to form a grand hall and a library, at the centre of which is the large library table associated with a payment to Thomas Chippendale's partner Haig, in 1779.

In 1980, Agnew published a memoir in which he implied that Nixon and his Chief of Staff, Alexander Haig, had planned to assassinate him if he refused to resign the Vice Presidency, and that Haig told him to " go quietly … or else ", the memoir's title.

In his autobiography A Time to Heal, Ford wrote about a meeting he had with Nixon's Chief of Staff, Alexander Haig.

Douglas Haig – at that time involved in intrigues to have Robertson appointed Chief of the Imperial General Staff – recommended that Kitchener be appointed Viceroy of India (“ where trouble was brewing ”) but not to the Middle East, where his strong personality would have led to that sideshow receiving too much attention and resources.

Haig later served ( 1950 – 51 ) with the X Corps, as aide to MacArthur's Chief of Staff, General Edward Almond, who awarded Haig two Silver Stars and a Bronze Star with Valor device.

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.

Chief of Staff Haig ( far right ), Sec.

Chief of Staff Alexander Haig approved Buchanan's appointment as ambassador to South Africa, but Ford refused it.

The Commander in Chief of the British forces during most of World War I, General Douglas Haig, was constantly seeking a " breakthrough " which could then be exploited with cavalry divisions.

Richard Nixon's Chief of Staff Alexander Haig became Secretary of State under Reagan.

Rothermere offered Trenchard the post of Chief of the Air Staff and before Trenchard could respond, Rothermere explained that Trenchard's support would be useful to him as he was about to launch a press campaign against Sir Douglas Haig and Sir William Robertson, the Chief of the Imperial General Staff.

Wilson was pleased with the promotion of his friend Foch to be French Chief of Staff but not the promotion of Petain as French Commander-in-Chief ( 10 May ) – Wilson was seen as pro-Nivelle and Petain soon began to deal directly with Haig, leaving little justification for Wilson ’ s job.

In his 1992 biography of Henry Kissinger, Walter Isaacson records that on 6 October 1973, during the 1973 Arab Israeli War, Kissinger urged President Richard Nixon's Chief of Staff General Alexander Haig to keep Nixon in Florida in order to avoid " any hysterical moves " and to " keep any Walter Mitty tendencies under control ".

He appeared in films like Southern Comfort, A Breed Apart, Red Dawn, The Emerald Forest, Tombstone, Oliver Stone's Nixon ( where he played Chief of Staff Alexander Haig ), Sudden Death, U Turn, and Extreme Prejudice, as well as HBO films like Into The Homeland and By Dawn's Early Light.

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Haig differed with Kitchener over the importance of Mediterranean efforts and wanted to see a strong General Staff in London, but nonetheless valued Kitchener as a military voice against the folly of civilians such as Churchill.

* Alexander Haig, United States Army general, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and United States Secretary of State ; grew up in Bala Cynwyd and attended Lower Merion High School in Ardmore

On the same day, Captain Douglas Haig of the 7th Hussars also entered the Staff College, albeit not by taking an exam, thus beginning a rivalry between the two that was to run until the First World War.

Different in character, Haig and Allenby both worked hard at Staff College, although the latter was more popular with fellow officers, even being made Master of the Draghounds in preference to Haig who was the better rider.

Assessments by Haig and Rawlinson on 2 July were lacking in the failure to secure objectives during the first day of the offensive.

On May 22, 1967, Lieutenant Colonel Haig was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross, the US Army's second highest medal for valor, by General William Westmoreland as a result of his actions during the Battle of Ap Gu in March 1967.

Haig was also awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Purple Heart during his tour in Vietnam, and was eventually promoted to Colonel, becoming a brigade commander of the 1st Infantry Division ( United States ) in Vietnam.

The Liberal Party finally split openly during the Maurice Debate in 1918, at which Lloyd George was accused ( almost certainly correctly ) of hoarding manpower in the UK to prevent Haig from launching any fresh offensives ( e. g. Passchendaele, 1917 ), possibly with a view to sending more troops to Palestine or Italy instead, and thus contributing to Allied weakness during the temporarily successful German offensives of spring 1918, in which British casualties were actually heavier than in their own offensives the previous year.

He designed and paid for the construction of the Earl Haig Gardens in Edinburgh for the use of returning servicemen to sit in during the day.

British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher invoked the example of Churchill during the Falklands War of 1982: " When the American Secretary of State, Alexander Haig, urged her to reach a compromise with the Argentines she rapped sharply on the table and told him, pointedly, ' that this was the table at which Neville Chamberlain sat in 1938 and spoke of the Czechs as a faraway people about whom we know so little '.

French was pleased at the removal of Robertson and Derby early in 1918, and during the German Spring Offensive urged that Haig be sacked and replaced by Plumer.

He was-at least during the Boer War-idolised by the public and during the First World War was loved by his men in a way that Douglas Haig never was.

The book covers Western Front operations during 1915, including the offensives at Neuve Chapelle, Aubers Ridge and Loos, and ending with the dismissal of Sir John French as Commander-in-Chief of the BEF, and his replacement by Douglas Haig.

Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig ( 1861 – 1928 ) was a British soldier and senior commander during World War I.

The First Army was part of the British Army during the First World War and was formed on 26 December 1914 when the corps of the British Expeditionary Force were divided into the First Army under Lieutenant-General Sir Douglas Haig and the Second Army under Horace Smith-Dorrien.

French ordered a general retreat, during which I Corps ( under General Douglas Haig ) and II Corps became separated.

A favourite of the British Commander-in-Chief, General Sir Douglas Haig, he experienced a meteoric rise through the ranks during the war.

In 1896 he entered the Staff College at Camberley, achieving the highest score of his class on the entrance exam, double that of classmate Douglas Haig who would later become commander-in-chief of the British Expeditionary Force ( BEF ) during the First World War.

In 1991, British historian Denis Winter, a staunch critic of Haig, acknowledged Edmonds ' comprehensive understanding of British operations during the war but said " Only a profoundly knowledgeable man could have produced an Official History so misleading and yet with that ring of plausibility which has led to a general acceptance for so long.