An experienced team player replaces a battle-weary vicar
"With great regret, I have accepted the resignation of Secretary of State Al Haig."
President Reagan at the White House
"We agreed that consistency, clarity and steadiness of purpose were essential, [but] in recent months it has become clear to me that the foreign policy on which we embarked together was shifting from that careful course."
Haig, reading his letter of resignation at the State Department
It was a strange event, at once inevitable and shockingly abrupt. Alexander Meigs Haig, 57, had been out of tune with...
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