Alexander Haig
Alexander Haig
Alexander Meigs Haig Jr.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. He also served as Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, the second-highest ranking officer in the Army, and as Supreme Allied Commander Europe commanding all U.S. and NATO forces in Europe...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth2 December 1924
CountryUnited States of America
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A durable, long-term U.S.-China strategic relationship is even more important now than in previous decades. The relationship will continue to grow and prosper to the mutual benefit of all peoples.
What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizing suicide bombers and killing women and children, hardly in keeping with the teachings of Prophet Mohammed.
Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved.
Propaganda was an important arm of the Soviet diplomacy, very important.
More often than not, Americans and Westerners overestimated the power and capability of the Soviet Union.
In Desert Storm, we had too many troops; in Afghanistan probably not enough for the major commitment we have made.
I probably carry more scar tissue on my derrière than any other candidate-that's political scar tissue.
Constitutionally, gentlemen, you have the president, the vice president and the secretary of state, in that order, and should the president decide he wants to transfer the helm to the vice president, he will do so. As for now, I'm in control here, in the White House, pending the return of the vice president and in close touch with him. If something came up, I would check with him, of course.
Let them march all they want, as long as they continue to pay their taxes.
I think the new generations in America, the America's youth, no longer care about Vietnam. They don't want to hear any more about it.
I started out as a Cold Warrior, even my last years in grade school.
Then came the hostage crisis during which Carter did nothing to rattle the ayatollahs who hung tough until Ronald Reagan was inaugurated, when they suddenly backed down.
You have to look at the history of the Middle East in particular. It has been one of failure and frustration, of feudalism and tribalism.
Sooner or later something had to give. But President Bush, faced with the unprecedented affront of 9-11, could not wait to take action. So he had to do what we were capable of doing, and he did it brilliantly.