Watch Nixon Legacy Forum Live on C-SPAN.org

Update (2/22/2010, 7:28am PST): The Effective Use of the President’s Time is now available on demand: The second Nixon Legacy forum, The Effective Use of the President’s Time is now streaming live on C-SPAN.org.Watch as four West Wing staff discuss how...

President Obama, Secretary Clinton Praise Gen. Haig

President Obama issued a Statement from the White House on the death of General Haig: Today we mourn the loss of Alexander Haig, a great American who served our country with distinction.  General Haig exemplified our finest warrior-diplomat tradition of those who...

A Moment In History

On 13 June 1971, General Alexander Haig, then Deputy Assistant to the President for Military Affairs, was the first to discuss with RN The New York Times’ publication —that Sunday morning— of the first installment of the study that became known as...

HAK: “He Lived For His Country”

The following are excerpts of an interview by CBS Radio correspondent Abby Regier of former National Security Adviser and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger about Alexander Haig, who passed away this morning at the age of 85: “We worked together for many years,...

The Third Paragraph

In 2003, Gerald S. Strober and Deborah Hart Strober published an oral history of the Ronald Reagan presidency, the third in a series of such books. (The others concerned the presidencies of John F. Kennedy and Richard Nixon, and the reign of Elizabeth II.) One section...