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.

As a young officer, Haig served on the staff of General Douglas MacArthur in Japan.

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.

( Both had served together in the 1st Infantry Division, Rogers as Assistant Division Commander and Haig as Brigade Commander.

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.

From 1974 to 1979, Haig served as the Supreme Allied Commander Europe ( SACEUR ), the Commander of NATO forces in Europe, and Commander-in-Chief of United States European Command ( CinCUSEUR ).

Wilson served as Principal Liaison Officer in Paris until Douglas Haig became Commander-in-Chief BEF in December 1915.

John Thomas Haig served as the party's leader in the legislature in 1921-22.

Haig served in the Second World War as an officer in the Royal Scots Greys regiment of the British Army and was for some time a prisoner of war in Oflag IV-C POW Camp ( better known as Colditz ).

A second lieutenant in the East Kent Yeomanry, Sassoon served as private secretary to Field Marshal Haig during the First World War.

Olivier researched the role by traveling to Norfolk, Virginia to visit the MacArthur Museum, and speaking with Alexander Haig, who had served as aide-de-camp to MacArthur.

He served as aide de camp to Sir Douglas Haig, commander of the British Expeditionary Force from 1917 to 1918.

In 1905 he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel and served with the Royal Horse Artillery under Sir Douglas Haig.

A former friend and business partner of Henry Kissinger, Alexander Haig, and James Baker, Ansary is a devoted Republican, having served on the National Finance Committee of the Bush-Cheney 2004 Presidential Campaign.

During World War I he served as Aide-de-Camp to Field Marshal Douglas Haig.

* 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.

Haig remained White House Chief of Staff during the early days of the Ford Administration until Donald Rumsfeld replaced him in September 1974.

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.

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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