3.16.10

Pat Nixon was born ninety-eight years ago today, on 16 March 1912. My mother was born near midnight on March 16th, 1912, in a miner’s shack high in the mountains of eastern Nevada.  Although it was almost spring the nights in the copper boom town of Ely were frosty,...

3.12.70

In 1968 RN appointed Roy Ash Chairman of the President’s Council on Executive Organization.  The Ash Council’s 1969 Report recommended the creation of a Domestic Council and an Office of Management and Budget.  Ash became OMB’s Director in 1972....

President Obama, Secretary Clinton Praise Gen. Haig

President Obama issued a Statement from the White House on the death of General Haig: Today we mourn the loss of Alexander Haig, a great American who served our country with distinction.  General Haig exemplified our finest warrior-diplomat tradition of those who...

A Moment In History

On 13 June 1971, General Alexander Haig, then Deputy Assistant to the President for Military Affairs, was the first to discuss with RN The New York Times’ publication —that Sunday morning— of the first installment of the study that became known as...

HAK: “He Lived For His Country”

The following are excerpts of an interview by CBS Radio correspondent Abby Regier of former National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger about Alexander Haig, who passed away this morning at the age of 85: “We worked together for many years,...