Wayne Madsen
22nd February, 2010
Columnist Wayne Madsen takes us behind the scenes of two momentous events in recent US history where General Alexander Haig played a pivotal role by twice foiling an attempt against the constitutional order. First, during the Watergate scandal when Haig anticipated that Richard Nixon might mobilize the military in order to stay to power. Then, as Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of State, Haig did not go for the official story of the assassination attempt, pinned on a love-sick boy whose father just happened to have very close links with Vice-President George H.W. Bush. Had Reagan been killed, Bush would have immediately ascended to the presidency. According to Madsen, it is thanks to Haig that he had to await his constitutional turn.
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