Alexander Haig

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Notable quotes

“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.”
— March 30, 1981, after Ronald Reagan was hospitalized. .
“That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude.”
— Defending himself against accusations of lying in 1983. Quoted by Rutledge, Leigh W., "Would I Lie To You?", Plume, 1998, , p. 81.
“Let them march all they want as long as they continue to pay their taxes.”
— On anti-war demonstrators.

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