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When Nixon asked me to become Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs, I thought it important to have a military assistant whose responsibilities ran to the White House rather than to the Pentagon. With a war in Viet Nam to end, I needed an officer who belonged to my staff but had the confidence of the military...
During the Viet Nam talks in 1972, Haig drew closer to Nixon-partly out of conviction (he probably would have preferred a military outcome), partly from the conflicting pulls of loyalty to me and duty to his Commander in Chief. This caused moments of exasperation. Yet in the end they were always superseded by my admiration for Haig's integrity, courage, intelligence and patriotism...
...revived, especially when you have forgotten how much pleasure it affords. The art of buck passing, for instance. It popped to life in New York a couple of weeks ago when Bruce Caputo, a candidate for the U.S. Senate, was caught as having described himself as a Viet Nam-era draftee and Army lieutenant. Mr. Caputo was neither. Yet when confronted with the fact that he had falsified his credentials in Who's Who in American Politics, he rose to the occasion as Michelangelo once rose to the ceiling: "To the extent that I or somebody on my staff...
Competition heats up for Viet Nam-style coverage in El Salvador...
...strike it lucky are envied by the others. One night, at the microwave station feeding the day's catch to the U.S.,-this reporter, who had found only sleeping soldiers after a day of fruitless searching, was told by a competitor that "ABC has bang-bang just like Viet Nam [the highest class of footage]. Tim Ross [ABC freelance correspondent] has a colonel in a jeep, just like central casting, saying they have a wounded black guerrilla they suspect is a Cuban...