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.

( 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.

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.

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.

Haig was explaining what he and Nixon's staff thought were Nixon's only options.

Haig told Ford that some of Nixon's staff suggested that Nixon could agree to resign in return for an agreement that Ford would pardon him.

During the Calais Affair ( whilst Wilson was away in Russia ) Lloyd George had attempted to sideline Haig to control of supply and logistics, whilst Nivelle, the French Commander-in-Chief, would exercise operational command of the British Forces, through a British staff officer – Wilson was probably earmarked for this job.

Foch was pleased at Wilson ’ s appointment, although Haig noted in his diary ( 25 February ) that Wilson was no longer so keen on a strong staff under Rawlinson, his successor at Versailles.

Haig noted in his diary ( 25 February ) that Wilson was no longer so keen on a strong Versailles staff under Rawlinson.

Travers concluded that Haig and GHQ chose the time, place and strategy of the campaign and that Gough and the Fifth Army staff selected tactics for the attacks of Pilckem Ridge and Langemarck.

Travers wrote that the Official History omitted a request, made by Gough in August for a conference to discuss a remedy for the lack of weight being brought against the Gheluvelt plateau, which Haig and the staff at GHQ should have settled along with the awkward placing of the boundary between the Fifth and Second armies, long before the attack commenced.

The Official History laid most of the blame for the decisions on the type of offensive, the width and direction of attacks and responsibility for planning on Gough and the Fifth Army staff, rather than on Haig and GHQ for selecting the Ypres salient at all, beginning controversies which have yet to end.

Wood was a patron of Captain Douglas Haig, who had attracted his attention by reporting on French cavalry manoeuvres in the early 1890s, although they did not actually meet face-to-face until an 1895 staff ride where Haig was serving as aide to Colonel John French.

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 started the war as the commanding officer of British I Corps, then was promoted to command the British First Army and then the BEF, an army group eventually comprising sixty divisions in five armies.

Wilson did not get on with Haig and wanted to go on half pay but Haig thought this unacceptable for such an able officer in wartime.

Hankey brokered an agreement whereby Haig would be subordinate to Nivelle only for the duration of the coming offensive and Wilson would be liaison officer at GQG but reporting to Haig.

Although only a junior officer ( a lieutenant of Hussars ), he would get to know senior British and French military and political figures ( Churchill, French, Haig, Joffre, Pétain, Reynaud, Robertson etc.

French ’ s paper criticised GHQ estimates of German casualties compared to War Office figures, pointed out that there was no firm evidence that German losses were commensurate with Allied, and that any further Western Front Offensive “ has become more of a “ gamble ” than anything else we have undertaken ” and that any future plans and forecasts by Haig should be most carefully examined.

French was severely criticised by those close to Haig, including Edmonds in the “ Official History ” ( he called him “ only " un beau sabreur " of the old fashioned sort … a vain, ignorant and vindictive old man with an unsavoury society backing ” and claimed that French once borrowed Sir Edward Hamley ’ s “ Operations of War ” from the War Office library but could not understand it ) and Duff Cooper in Haig's Official Biography.

In 1969, he was appointed Military Assistant to the Presidential Assistant for National Security Affairs, Henry Kissinger, a position he retained until 1970 when President Richard Nixon promoted Haig to Deputy Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs.

* He returned to Washington 1979 as Deputy Executive Secretary to the Department of State, serving in the offices of Secretaries of State Vance, Muskie, & Haig.

On June 5, 1920, he was transported on a train with Deputy U. S. Marshals Cavanaugh and 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 )

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.

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

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 ".

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.

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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