Alexander Haig

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Alexander Haig I am in charge

Alexander Haig, the longtime advisor to presidents Nixon, Ford, and Reagan, and former Secretary of State, has died at the age of 85. The four-star general who served in Vietnam and Korea had recently been hospitalized for an infection. He was died today from complications resulting from infection, in the Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, where he was surrounded by family members, according to two of his children, Alexander and Barbara.

Gary Stephenson, a hospital spokesman, said Haig died at about 1:30 am He was 85. In spite of direct involvement with Richard Nixon’s Watergate scandal and a penchant for controversial soundbites, Haig was a longtime staple at the White House and even made a bid for the presidency in 1988.

M. Alexander Haig, as Foreign Minister said “I am in control here,” Ronald Reagan when he was shot in 1981, as in the White House chief of staff seven years ago was in a lot of control in an effective and run the government during the last days of the Nixon administration.

“I think of him as a patriot’s patriot,” said his successor George P. Schulz. When President Reagan was nearly assassinated in 1981 and Vice President George H.W. Bush was flying, Gen. Haig quickly asserted his power in front of reporters, saying, “As of now, I am in control here in the White House, pending return of the vice president and in close touch with him,” which, to some people, appeared to be overstepping his boundaries.

Alexander Haig