- Born
- Died
- Birth nameAlexander Meigs Haig Jr.
- Nickname
- Al
- 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.- IMDb Mini Biography By: jeff fallis
- SpousePatricia Antoinette Fox(May 24, 1950 - February 20, 2010) (his death, 3 children)
- ChildrenAlexander Haig Jr.Barbara Haig
- U.S. Secretary of State (1981-1982).
- Fond words of remembrance written by former U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Adviser, Henry Kissinger, for "Time" magazine's Milestones section (Issue: March 8, 2010).
- Father of Brian Haig, Alexander Haig Jr. and Barbara Haig.
- At the same time he worked as Reagan's Secretary of State, he advised Sir Laurence Olivier in his portrayal of General Douglas MacArthur during the filming of Inchon (1981). Haig was a lieutenant under MacArthur's command.
- Is portrayed by John Pochna in Inchon (1981), David Ogden Stiers in The Final Days (1989), Powers Boothe in Nixon (1995), Richard Dreyfuss in The Day Reagan Was Shot (2001), Bill Smitrovich in The Reagans (2003) and Patrick St. Esprit in Killing Reagan (2016).
- [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.
- [to reporters, following the March 30, 1981 assassination attempt on president Reagan] I am in control here.
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