Alexander Haig(1924-2010)

Nixon's Chief of Staff, 1973-74. Finally urged Nixon to resign. NATO Commander from 1975 to 1979. Secretary of State for Ronald Reagan. Got himself in hot water after the assassination attempt against the President in March 1981 when he appeared in the Press Room in the White House and announced "As of now, I'm in charge here." Vice-President George Bush was on an airplane en-route from Texas at this time. Constitutionally, the next in line in the order of succession is the Vice-President, then the Speaker of the House, then the Senate Pro Tempore, THEN the Secretary of State. His tenure as Secretary of State ended in June 1982, after his unsuccessful attempts to broker a peace settlement between Britain and Argentina in the Falklands War.

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Known for

The American President

7.8

TV Series

Self - Benjamin Harrison(voice)

Les Hommes de la Maison Blanche

TV Movie

Self - Alexander Haig

1998

The 11 O'Clock Show

7.2

TV Series

Self(as General Alexander Haig)

The Trials of Henry Kissinger

7.6

Self

2002

Credits

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Self

Henry Kissinger - Geheimnisse einer Supermacht
6.3
TV Movie
- Self
- 2008
Rendezvous with Death: Why John F. Kennedy Had to Die
6.5
TV Movie
- Self
- 2006
History Declassified: Nixon in China
TV Movie
- Self
- 2004
War Stories with Oliver North
6.9
TV Series
- Self
- 2003
Les mercredis de l'histoire
6.2
TV Series
- Self
- 2002–2003
The Trials of Henry Kissinger
7.6
- Self
- 2002
History's Mysteries
7.9
TV Series
- Self
- 2000
The American President
7.8
TV Series
- Self - Benjamin Harrison (voice)
- 2000
The 11 O'Clock Show
7.2
TV Series
- Self (as General Alexander Haig)
- 1999
American Experience
8.6
TV Series
- Self
- 1999
The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs
8.4
TV Series
- Self - Deputy National Security Adviser, USA
- 1998
Les Hommes de la Maison Blanche
TV Movie
- Self - Alexander Haig
- 1998
Our Time in Hell: The Korean War
7.5
TV Movie
- Self
- 1997
World Business Review
TV Series
- Self - 2nd Host
- 1996–2006
Watergate
8.3
TV Series
- Himself(1994) (as Gen. Alexander Haig)
- 1994

Archive Footage

TLDR News
4.6
TV Series
- Self (archive footage)
- 2026
Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
6.0
TV Series
- Self - U.S. Army General
- Self (archive footage, as Gen. Alexander Haig, archive footage)
- 2021–2026
Becoming Katharine Graham
8.1
- Self - General (archive footage, voice)
- 2025
America's Book of Secrets: Special Edition
6.9
TV Series
- Self - Former U.S. Secretary of State (archive footage)
- 2023
Andrew: The Problem Prince
6.8
TV Mini Series
- Self (archive footage, uncredited)
- 2023
Thatcher & Reagan: A Very Special Relationship
6.9
TV Series
- Self (archive footage)
- 2022
20/20
6.8
TV Series
- Self (archive footage)
- 2017
Nixon by Nixon: In His Own Words
7.4
- Self (archive sound)
- 2014
America's Book of Secrets
6.7
TV Series
- Self - Former U.S. Secretary of State (archive footage)
- 2012
Boogie Man: The Lee Atwater Story
7.6
- Self - Secretary of State (archive footage)
- 2008
The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom
8.5
TV Mini Series
- Self (archive footage, as General Alexander Haig)
- 2007
Nixon: A Presidency Revealed
8.2
TV Movie
- Self (archive footage)
- 2007
911 Octopus
Video
- Self (archive sound)
- 2006
Watergate Plus 30: Shadow of History
8.6
TV Movie
- Self (archive footage)
- 2003
Independent Lens
8.1
TV Series
- Self (archive footage, uncredited)
- 2003

Personal details

Alternative names
- Gen. Alexander M. Haig
Born
- December 2, 1924
- Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania, USA
Died
- February 20, 2010
- Baltimore, Maryland, USA(complications from an infection)
Spouse
- Patricia Antoinette FoxMay 24, 1950 - February 20, 2010 (his death, 3 children)
Children
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Trivia
U.S. Secretary of State (1981-1982).

Quotes
[on the introduction of a secret recording facility in the Oval Office by President Nixon]. It never occurred to me that anyone in his right mind would install anything so Orwellian as a system that never turned off, that preserved every word, every curse, every tantrum, every flight of presidential paranoia, every bit of flattery and bad advice and tattling by his advisers.