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Alexander Haig

b: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Dec 2, 1924

d: Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Feb 20, 2010

Alexander Meigs Haig, Jr. was a United States Army general who served as the United States Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan and White House Chief of Staff under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. He also served as Vice Chief of Staff of the Army, the second-highest ranking officer in the Army, and as Supreme Allied Commander Europe commanding all U.S. and NATO forces in Europe. A veteran of the Korean War and Vietnam War, Haig was a recipient of the Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star with oak leaf cluster, and the Purple Heart.

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I am in charge here now.

I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.

Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.

Syria is a terrorist state by any definition and is so classified by the State Department. I happen to think Iran is too. Iraq, Iran, Syria, they're all involved.

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.

The warning message we sent the Russians was a calculated ambiguity that would be clearly understood.

There are about half a billion people around the world who use e-mail to 5 billion.

Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage.

What the fundamentalists are doing is a total negation of their own faith - encouraging and lionizing suicide bombers and killing women and children, hardly in keeping with the teachings of Prophet Mohammed.