Per ABC7 Los Angeles Twitter Feed Al Haig has passed away

http://twitter.com/abc7/statuses/9384377253

BREAKING NEWS: Alexander Haig, former secretary of state, has passed away, AP reports.

I hope this doesn't turn into a bash fest.


He certainly had a high opinion of himself.

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I'm old enough to remember him defending Nixon.

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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703787304575076153626209606.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_US_News_5
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Mr. Haig's long and decorated military service launched the Washington career for which he became better known. But he never lived down his televised response to the 1981 assassination attempt on President Ronald Reagan.

Hours after the shooting, then-Secretary of State Mr. Haig went before the cameras intending, he said later, to reassure Americans that the White House was functioning.

"As of now, I am in control here in the White House, pending the return of the vice president," Mr. Haig said.

The four-star general served as a top adviser to three presidents and had presidential ambitions of his own. President Richard Nixon appointed him White House chief of staff in 1973. In that role, Mr. Haig helped the president prepare his impeachment defense and handled many of the day-to-day decisions normally made by the chief executive.

what a hoot. what a bunch.

Here's Buchanan the racist on GEM$NBC defending the entire gang along with Andrea Mitchell.

. . . and he just flaked. Pretty funny when it happened tho. Everyone just said 'that's Al Haig for you'; pretty typical of him so it stuck.

it was clear that he was dying.

who's in charge?

Palin? :D

even Satan's afraid of Dick.

May he rest in peace.

RIP

:D

of recent vintage.

He was the one who looked the other way when the four martyred churchwomen were raped and murdered in 1980, he was the one who helped kill so many in Central America, and he was an evil man. May God have mercy, but if He does, I hope Sr. Dorothy Kazel has a word with him or two first.

raised Irish Catholic, and went to Catholic schools and all.

the man who would be president.

Was apparently a good soldier for many years...developed a super ego and a touch of meglomania at the end of his career.